Isn’t it better to develop sensitivity rather than have it foisted upon us?


Oh, so it’s rained on your parade and you got wet. Get used to it for in this life it will often happen. But, remember, the sun will eventually come out and dry you off.


I used to think that a faith-filled life was a stress-free life. Now that I’m older I know better.


We do not glide through life; we stumble through it. The secret is keeping our balance, and getting back up and continuing the journey when we fall.


We seem to pre-determine the suffering we will put up with. We will endure physical pain, grief, sorrow, loneliness, but not betrayal or forsakenness of loved ones. But they are part of the challenges of the spirit, too, and we had better learn to put up with them.


We are required by the soul-alert life to not merely put up with our suffering, but to forgive it and transcend it.

Of course it isn’t easy. But some have done it. And if others have done it, why can’t I?


Suffering may, in the eternal scheme of things, result in our consecration. It is intended to hallow us rather than denigrate us.


Oh, how hard it is to learn the lessons we must learn. But let us be touched by this knowing: The more difficult the lesson, the more glorious the learning of it.


We live in a time when “men’s hearts shall fail them.” Then do something to strengthen your heart!