If you are going through trying times today consider this:
(Randy Alcorn, “If God Is Good”, p. 397)
“God can bear the full weight of our pain and give us strength and life even when we feel only weakness and death. Here’s an amazing truth: ‘Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.’ (I Peter 5:7) God, the creator of the universe and fountainhead of all marvels, CARES for you. Think about that for a million years!”

Sittser on Redemption
“Redemption promises to transform us…Once broken, we become whole again; once selfish and insecure, we become stately and serene and self-giving; once