God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.

All our problems are theological ones, William Temple said. All of them have to do with our relationship to God and his to us, and this is precisely why it makes sense to come to God with them.

Think of this- we may live together with Him here and now, a daily walking with Him who loved us and gave Himself for us.

If God, like a father, denies us what we want now it is in order to give us some far better thing later on. The will of God, we can rest assured, is invariably a better thing.

Waiting silently is the hardest thing of all.

But the question to precede all others, which finally determines the course of our lives is What do I really want? Was it to love what God commands, in the words of the collect, and to desire what He promises? Did I want what I wanted, or did I want what He wanted, no matter what it might cost?

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.