Memorable Quotes from Return to Your First Love, by Teresa R. Jones. 

I love happy-endings, especially when they are mine.

I wonder sometimes if they literally saw David walking into hell's gates, would they stop to offer him a ride to get there quicker?

The thought of your child being abducted gives you a paralyzing fear! Although I only felt this for about 3-5 minutes, it felt like eternity. All you are thinking is, "Will I ever see my child again? Will my child be taken care of? Will my child be killed?" and every other horrifying thought that can cross your imagination. My heart goes out to parents that didn't have an ending like mine.

My heart sank as I was faced with the possibility that at that very moment, it might be the last time I would see my father alive, knowing that my brother had banned me from coming to his building. I just sat there and watched my father some more.

"Dad, I love you very much." For a moment, he continued to sit upright in his bed with his eyes closed, as I waited anxiously for a response. All of a sudden, my dad mustered up enough strength to raise his arm, as he gently placed his hand on the side of my face, and he looked directly into my eyes. He spoke no words, but his eyes spoke volumes. His look expressed that he would miss me and that he loved me very much too! This snapshot in time lasted about ten seconds, but it will resonate in my mind always.

Although my siblings were giving me a hard time, it felt as though they waited for me to begin their grieving.

In my quiet times, I vented my frustrations to God. I felt that I was suffering unfairly. Jesus reminded me that He had suffered unfairly for me. I didn't have much to say after that.

My siblings and I assumed our estranged positions. In a very real sense, I was left to grieve my father's passing alone. Yes, I had Alex and the kids and my cousins, but the ones who could best relate to my pain were too distant to touch.

…when Alex and I went to New York in late August, one morning when we awoke; Alex told me that he had a dream about my dad. During the dream, he was at my parent's apartment in my brother's building. As he walked in he saw my siblings sitting on the sofa and my dad was reclined behind them on the sofa. Alex looked at my dad and said, "JT is that you?" My dad responded, "Yes." Alex asked, "Are you all right?" Alex also mentioned that my dad had a full head of hair and it was all black. My dad then said, "No more pain, no more problems!" He then stood up in the middle of the floor and started dancing to show how great he felt. Based on the sound of things, my dad had to be in heaven, which was good to hear. However, (jokingly), I must admit that I feel a little slighted by the fact my dad took the time to follow us to New York and visited Alex, knowing I was just one person over in the bed!

We are all human and are prone to error; however, we must distance ourselves from so-called friends who constantly hurt, disrespect, or reject us; because we teach others how to treat us by what we allow.

Even unclean spirits obey God (Mk 1:27). If we say that we love God, we should be able to do a lot better than unclean spirits.

…there has never been a death certificate that indicated the cause as "Lack of Sex."

Sex is God's gift to marriage between a man and a woman. As a side note, the church must do a better job as a whole to teach sex education to our youth and young adults. God created sex and His servants should be the expert on the topic and not those of "the world.

I know in today's time, it's not popular to trust anyone with your money, not even your spouse. My question would be, "Why would you marry someone you cannot trust?"

Alex asserted himself and told me that paying credit card bills didn't prove anyone creditworthy. "When you go to the bank and take out a loan with no problem, that's when you have good credit." I cried as Alex took my credit cards. I didn't have anything else to say to him for the rest of the day. I felt that he was so wrong. After some time had passed, I came to realize that he was so right.

As I hung up the phone, I whispered, "Lord, I trust You! I trust You!" as I mustered enough strength to fight back the tears.

He said that when he prayed to God on his own, regarding Alexis' eye, he prayed that God would send the best doctors. We were seeing that God honored Alex's prayers.

I found him lying prostrate in our bathroom in tears. I didn't know what to say, because that was a loss for Alex that only God could understand. She was the backbone of their family, the one that was there for Alex through every phase of his life. The one who prayed him through everything.

Once there were signs that I was pregnant, I had planned to surprise Alex with the news. However, Alex had watched my monthly cycle closer than I had! I had to stop him from buying a home pregnancy test because I had already purchased one.

…we had never faced this mountain before. I realized that there was no room for pride, so I had just better be obedient and do what God had told me to do.

"What a sweet spirit! You seek hard after God! God says to tell you that He loves you. You are the apple of His heart. You are like the woman with the alabaster box of ointment." I wept profusely upon hearing this. Only God could say the nicest things to me that I had ever heard.