What God gives in answer to our prayers will always be the thing we most urgently need, and it will always be sufficient.

Where does your security lie? Is God your refuge, your hiding place, your stronghold, your shepherd, your counselor, your friend, your redeemer, your saviour, your guide? If He is, you don't need to search any further for security.

A wife, if she is very generous, may allow that her husband lives up to perhaps eighty percent of her expectations. There is always the other twenty percent that she would like to change, and she may chip away at it for the whole of their married life without reducing it by very much. She may, on the other hand, simply decide to enjoy the eighty percent, and both of them will be happy.

The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith.

Things happen which would not happen without prayer. Let us not forget that.

What God gives in answer to our prayers will always be the thing we most urgently need, and it will always be sufficient.

A little quiet reflection will remind me that yes to God always leads in the end to joy.