What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.

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.

Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering. The love of God is of a different nature altogether. It does not hate tragedy. It never denies reality. It stands in the very teeth of suffering.

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.

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

The heart set to do the Father's will, need never fear defeat.

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.