A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.
Letting ourselves be loved by God is the place where we stumble upon trust.
Life, even in the hardest times, is full of moments to savor. They will not come this way again, not in this way.
Life is not a journey you want to make on autopilot.
Have you thought that your willingness to forgive is really your affirmation of the power of God to do you good?
In this place of gracious uncertainty, we wait. For the broken places to be brought back together. For the meaning of our suffering to be revealed in his. For the righteous reign of a mighty God, whose goodness we will spend all eternity celebrating. We wait - with open, expectant hearts.
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
I would SERIOUSLY consider moving to Texas if it would secede from the union and re-form as The Republic of Texas. It has that power.
Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. I have read and heard many attempts at a systematic account of it, from materialism and theosophy to the Christian system or that of Kant, and I have always felt that they were much too simple. I suspect that there are more things in heaven and earth that are dreamed of, or can be dreamed of, in any philosophy. That is the reason why I have no philosophy myself, and must be my excuse for dreaming.
It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.