“To forgive is to set a prisoner free, and then to discover the prisoner was me” – Lewis B. Smedes

The thought that the affairs of the world, like those of the stars, are in God’s hands – and therefore in good hands – apart from being actually true – is something that should give great satisfaction to anyone who looks to the future with hope. It should be a source of faith, joyful hope, and, above all, of deep peace. What have I to fear if everything is guided and sustained by God? Why get so worried, as if the world were in the hands of me and my fellow human beings?
And yet it is so difficult to have genuine faith in God’s actions in the world. To refuse to believe it is one of the gravest temptations to which we are subjected on this earth. – Carlo Carretto

I heard this last night – simply beautiful.

God, thank you for all you’ve given me, all you’ve taken from me, and all you have left me.

Amen

Be still and know that I am God.

Be still and know that I am.

Be still and know.

Be still.

Be.

And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.