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

So many people never pause long enough to make up their minds about basic issues of life and death. It's quite possible to go through your whole life, making the mechanical motions of living, adopting as your own sets of ideas you've come to any conslusion for yourself as to what life is all about.

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.

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

God's way of dealing with us is to throw us into situations over our depth, then supply us with the necessary ability to swim.

I still don't understand anything- exept that somehow I know that You are love. And that in my heart has been so great a love for Christy as I did not know could exist on this earth. You, God, must be responsible. You must have put it there. So what do I do with it now?

Once we recognize our need for Jesus, then the building of our faith begins. It is a daily, moment-by-moment life of absolute dependence upon Him for everything