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Aspen Matis

"I doubted I could survive in the woods without these very basic things to help me. It seemed like a tremendous leap of faith to forsake the tools I'd always been told I needed. And yet leaving college to walk was such a massive leap of faith already, and nothing I'd ever trusted and believed in seemed true any longer."

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"I doubted I could survive in the woods without these very basic things to help me. It seemed like a tremendous leap of faith to forsake the tools I'd always been told I needed. And yet leaving college to walk was such a massive leap of faith already, and nothing I'd ever trusted and believed in seemed true any longer."

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Donna Grant

"To Extend Kingdom Principles Is To See Its Lifestyle Manifest."

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Donna Grant

"Faith is believe."

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Donna Grant

"How can we abstain from sexual immorality? Only God can give us the grace."

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Donna Grant

"Devote yourself to reading of the Holy Scriptures."

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Donna Grant

"To conquer the land we need to win a battle."

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Donna Grant

"If a person takes comfort in his or her faith upon divinity in times of distress, then who the hell am I to say, that the person is delusional."

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Donna Grant

"God's grace grant us immeasurable ability to overcome adversity of any type."

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Donna Grant

"The Lord Jesus Christ is a blameless Lamb."

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Donna Grant

"You cannot have a cordial relationship with God when you reject people."

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Donna Grant

"We are to love God most importantly so that we can grow to love people as he loved us, not so that we can feel more divine and worthy than the worldly."

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Aspen Matis
"From that unremarkable gap in dense northern forest, I could finally see clearly that if I hadn't walked away from school, through devastating beauty alone on the Pacific Crest Trail, met rattlesnakes and bears, fording frigid and remote rivers as deep as I am tall-feeling terror and the gratitude that followed the realization that I'd survived rape-I'd have remained lost, maybe for my whole life. The trail had shown me how to change.This is the story of how my recklessness became my salvation.I wrote it."

Healing

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Aspen Matis
"The bravest thing I ever did was leave there. The next bravest thing I did was come back, to make myself heard."

Courage

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Aspen Matis
"The trees were friendly, they gave me rest and shadowed refuge. Slipping through them, I felt safe and competent. My whole body was occupied. I had little energy to think or worry."

Nature

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Aspen Matis
"She taught me only how to need to be taken care of. I was here because I needed to learn to take responsibility for making my own decisions - to earn my own trust."

Responsibility

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Aspen Matis
"He hadn't treated me with the love and compassion I wanted, but I was worthy of that love, and someday some boy would have it for me. I hadn't found it yet, but I would find it soon."

Love

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Aspen Matis
"The wisdom of my body had cultivated vibrantly since those sadness-drunken months after the rape when I'd felt so numbed by the hurt and shame that I didn't move further. No longer. The way I felt about being sexually shamed had changed. Now I was angry that others were trying to shame my sexuality in the first place. I flushed-this time not in shame-but in rage."

Empowerment

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Aspen Matis
"Death is not a pretty flower that had almost pricked me. It was not a small annoyance I could simply bypass and quickly disregard. It was really The End."

Death

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Aspen Matis
"I realized that the most empowering important thing was actually simply taking care of myself."

Empowerment

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Aspen Matis
"I sensed he was the one who might be able to see me clearly, the way I most wished to be seen."

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Aspen Matis
"Though I was starved for contact, I didn't stop to talk to any of these strangers. I had forgotten how to convincingly speak the polite things strangers say to each other."

Loneliness

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