"And We Know That GOD Causes All Things To Work Together For Good."

True, victorious living

(J.R. Miller)

Many of us find life hard and full

of pain. The world treats us meanly

and roughly. We suffer wrongs and

injuries. Other people's clumsy

feet tread upon our tender hearts.

We must endure misfortunes,

trials, and disappointments.

We cannot avoid these things,

but we should not allow the harsh

experiences to deaden our sensibilities,

or make us stoic or sour. The true

aim of living, is to keep our hearts 

sweet and gentle amid the hardest 

conditions and experiences. 

If you remove the snow from

the hillside in the late winter,

you will find sweet flowers growing

there, beneath the cold drifts, unhurt

by the storm and by the snowy blankets

that have covered them. Just so,

should we keep our hearts tender

and sensitive beneath life's fiercest

winter blasts, and through the longest

years of suffering, and even of injustice

and wrong treatment. That is true, 

victorious living.

"And we know that GOD causes all 
things to work together for good to 
those who love GOD, to those who 
are called according to HIS purpose!" 
Romans 8:28

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