Like all good citizens, the elderly and people with disabilities want to eradicate waste and fraud from government, but helping people with special needs meet their basic needs doesn’t fit this description.

Heartache forces us to embrace God out of desparate, urgent need. God is never closer than when your heart is aching.

God permits what He hates in order to accomplish something that He loves.

Real satisfaction comes not in understanding God's motives, but in understanding His character, in trusting in His promises, and in leaning on Him and resting in Him as the Sovereign who knows what He is doing and does all things well.

When we hurt, God doesn't always give us lots of words; he gives us the Word; the Word made flesh who is intimately acquainted with our grief and suffering. That's what helps the most.

Amazing, isn't it, that our prayers...can move the very heart of God who created the universe?

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