Acceptance says, True, this is my situation at the moment. I'll look unblinkingly at the reality of it. But I'll also open my hands to accept willingly whatever a loving Father sends me.

The search for God begins at the point of need.

I believe the old cliché, 'God helps those who help themselves,' is not only misleading but often dead wrong. My most spectacular answers to prayers have come when I was so helpless, so out of control as to be able to do nothing at all for myself.

Satan cannot create anything new, cannot create anything at all. He must steal what God has created. Thus he twists love and God's wonderful gift of sex into lust and sadism and myriad perversions. He disfigures the heart's deep desire to worship God and persuades us to bow before lesser gods of lust or money or power.

Of course you'll encounter trouble. But behold a God of power who can take any evil and turn it into a door of hope.

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

I learned that true forgiveness includes total self-acceptance. And out of acceptance wounds are healed and happiness is possible again.