When we hold a photo negative up to the light all objects are reversed. Black is white, white is black. Moreover, the character lines of any face in the picture are not clear. Once placed into the developing solution, what photographers call "the latent image" is revealed in the print-darkness is turned to light; and, lo, we have a beautiful picture.

Living in the middle of beautiy like this, we've no call to have puny ideas about God. Why do you suppose His world is so fancy-fine, so full of wonderment if He doesn't want everything to be good and perfect and right and healthy? But we can spoil His good work. When we mess things up, then we shouldn't blame Him and try to make ourselves feel better by contending that it's what He wanted.

The purpose of all prayer is to find God's will and to make that our prayer

Our prayers must not be efforts to bend God to our will but to yield ourselves to His.

I learned that true forgiveness includes total acceptance.

One can believe intellectually in the efficacy of prayer and never do any praying.

God is the only one who can make the valley of trouble a door of hope.