Quote Of The Day

 "When we suffer we attract counselors as money attracts thieves. Everybody has an idea of what we did wrong to get ourselves into so much trouble and a prescription for what we can do to get out of it. We are flooded first with sympathy and then with advice, and when we don't come around quickly we are abandoned as a hopeless case. But none of that is what we need. We need hope. We need to know that we are in relation to God. We need to know that suffering is part of what it means to be human and not something alien. We need to know where we are and where God is. We need an eye specialist rather than, say, a painter. A painter tries to convey to use with the aid of his brush and palette a picture of the world as he sees it; an ophthalmologist tries to enable us to see the world as it really is... 

Our place in the depths is not out of bounds from God. We see that whatever or whoever got us in trouble cannot separate us from God... We are persuaded that God's way with us is redemption and that the redemption, not the suffering, is ultimate." 

                                                   

                                              - Eugene Peterson