If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.

Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and with firm conviction that Your will governs all.

The principles of gain through loss, of joy through sorrow, of getting by giving, of fulfillment by laying down, of life out of death is what the Bible teaches, and the people who have believed it enough to live it out in simple, humble, day-by-day practice are people who have found the gain, the joy, the getting, the fulfillment, the life.

Either we are adrift in chaos or we are individuals, created, loved, upheld and placed purposefully, exactly where we are. Can you believe that? Can you trust God for that?

Lonely? Give it to Jesus. The loneliness itself is material for sacrifice.

Heaven is not here, it's There. If we were given all we wanted here, our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next. God is forever luring us up and away from this one, wooing us to Himself and His still invisible Kingdom, where we will certainly find what we so keenly long for

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