There's a big difference between feeling thankful and giving thanks. One response involves emotions, the other, your will. Trusting God has nothing to do with trustful feelings.

It is a glorious thing to know that your Father God makes no mistakes in directing or permitting that which crosses the path of your life. It is the glory of God to conceal a matter. It is our glory to trust Him, no matter what.

God uses suffering to purge sin from our lives, strengthen our commitment to Him, force us to depend on grace, bind us together with other believers, produce discernment, foster sensitivity, discipline our minds, spend our time wisely, stretch our hope, cause us to know Christ better, make us long for truth, lead us to repentance of sin, teach us to give thanks in time of sorrow, increase faith, and strengthen character.

The Psalms wrap nouns and verbs around our pain better than any other book.

The success of God's Word in our lives is linked intrinsically to our application of its truth.

It always helps to know that other parents with special-needs children are surviving, and surviving well.

God is truly on the side of those who work for social justice, especially when we accompany that work with the giving of the Gospel!