My dear friend Candy has the best knack for collecting bits and pieces of inspiration & direction in life. She very graciously shares them with me. This was one from last week.
... God relishes surprise. We want lives of simple, predictable ease -- smooth, even trails as far as the eye can see -- but God likes to go off-road. He provokes us with twists and turns. He places us in predicaments that seem to defy our endurance and comprehension -- and yet don't. By his love and grace, we persevere. The challenges that make our hearts leap and stomachs churn invariably strengthen our faith and grant measures of wisdom and joy we would not experience otherwise.
Tony Snow
Good, huh? Made me rethink my extreme dislike of surprises.
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