Random Thoughts

"Adversity can increase faith or instead can cause the troubling roots of bitterness to spring up... One's life, therefore, can not be both faith filled and stress free... Therefore, how can you and I really expect to glide naively through life, as if to say, 'Lord, give me experience, but not grief, not sorrow, not pain, not opposition, not betrayal, and certainly not to be forsaken. Keep from me, Lord, all those experiences which made thee what thou art! Then, let me come and dwell with thee and fully share thy joy.'"