We may never become accustomed to untrue and unjust criticism of us but we ought not to be immobilized by it.
How could there be refining fires without our enduring some heat?
Celestial criteria measures service, not status.
The acceptance of the reality that we are in the Lord's loving hands is only a recognition that we have never really been anywhere else.
Love is never wasted, even if it is not reciprocated.
Spent time-like a spent bullet-tells us much about its "processor." for we see not only the residual slug, but indicators of how spent time is grooved by a man's soul, a reliable indicator of what a man is like.