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.

Despite disappointments, the Christian is obligated to pray for the sick because we are bidden to do so and because the crumb of our caring is but a morsel broken from the whole loaf of the Father's infinite and tender love.

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

Often God has to shut a door in our face, so that He can subsequently open the door through which He wants us to go.

The unfolding of our friendship with the Father will be a never-ending revelation strretching on into eternity

Lord, what are you trying to teach me?

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.