Maybe the truly handicapped people are the ones that don't need God as much.

Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.

Nothing is a surprise to God; nothing is a setback to His plans; nothing can thwart His purposes; and nothing is beyond His control. His sovereignty is absolute. Everything that happens is uniquely ordained by God. Sovereignty is a weighty thing to ascribe to the nature and character of God. Yet if He were not sovereign, He would not be God. The Bible is clear that God is in control of everything that happens.

Even at the cross, God permitted what he hated - the unjust and agonizing death of his own precious Son - in order to accomplish something he prized above his own Son's cruel death; that is, salvation for a world of sinners. So the world's worst murder becomes the world's only salvation.

God's purpose in increasing our trials is to sensitize us to people we never would have been able to relate to otherwise.

I want to stay in the habit of 'glancing' at my problems and 'gazing' at my Lord.

God always seems bigger to those who need him most. And suffering is the tool he uses to help us need him more.