Sometimes we want things we were not meant to have. Because he loves us, the Father says no. Faith trusts that no. Faith is willing not to have what God is not willing to give. Furthermore, faith does not insist upon an explanation. It is enough to know His promises to give what is good-he knows so much more about us than we do.

Things which sound like platitudes become vital, living and powerful when you have to learn them in the bottom of the barrel, in dark tunnels.

God has promised to supply all our needs. What we don't have now, we don't need now.

Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections.

The life of faith is lived one day at a time, and it has to be lived - not always looked forward to as though the "real" living were around the next corner. It is today for which we are responsible. God still owns tomorrow.

It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life.

Praise and glory to God for whom nothing is too hard