We are not diminished when someone else is added upon.

(Phillipians 3:14) No Lots wife here. No looking back at Sodom and Gomorrah here. Paul knows it is out there in the future, up ahead wherever heaven is taking us, that we will win "the prize" of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

God loves us. He is good, He is our Father, and He expects us to pray, and to trust and be believing, and not give up, and not panic, and not retreat, when something doesn't seem to be going just right.

It is obvious that the bumper sticker question "What would Jesus do?" will not always bring a popular response.

We are infinitely more than our limitations and afflictions.

I believe we have all been created for greater things than we can comprehend.

Patiently enduring some things is part of our mortal education.