The world is full of noise. Might we not set ourselves to learn silence, stillness solitude?

I will offer to Him both my tears and my exultation. Nothing we offer to Him will be lost.

Waiting silently is the hardest thing of all.

Faith's most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith vain.

If we hold tightly to anything given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to be used we stunt the growth of the soul. What God gives us is not necessarily "ours" but only ours to offer back to him, ours to relinguish, ours to lose, ours to let go of, if we want to be our true selves. Many deaths must go into reaching our maturity in Christ, many letting goes.

If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things. It is we, of course, to whom things look 'little' or 'big'.

Where reasons are given, we don't need faith. Where only darkness surrounds us, we have no means for seeing except by faith.