We have ample evidence that the Lord is able to guide. The promises cover every imaginable situation. All we need to do is to take the hand he stretches out.

It is God to whom and with whom we travel, and while He is the end of our journey, He is also at every stopping place.

It is in our acceptance of what is given that God gives Himself.

One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.

I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we are able to honestly to pray what He taught His disciples to pray: Thy will be done.

New Year's Day is a good time to fix one's eyes on the only One who knows what the year is to hold.

One step at a time, over the years, as I sought to plumb the mystery of suffering (which cannot be plumbed), I began to see that there is a sense in which everything is a gift. Even my widowhood.