Do you find yourself discouraged with your life's circumstances? Do your situations seem to hard to handle? Dark mysteries bring great blessings. In the gloom, qualities like faith, grit, and dedication, are stretched to limits we have never before reached. When life seems so oppressive we are oblivious to our triumphs. In pristine conditions eyes of faith can see forever. It is the conditions, not you, that have deteriorated. Earth sees us flattened on the wrestling ring canvas in faith's fight. Heaven sees us forming on the canvas of the Great Artist. Half-completed works of the art look ugly. All that matters is the finished masterpiece. Forget appearance. Yield to the Artist. The result will be breath-taking.

--Patti H.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

--Eleanor Roosevelt

"Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed; for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest."
Joshua 1:9