It is easy for Christians to have the false impression that once we have established a relationship with Christ, which we believe sets us right with God, the problems of life will somehow scoot away or they will slowly be removed from our lives.

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Jesus kept it simple. The lesson wasn't complicated. 'I speak; you believe My word; your son will be fine.' We complicate what God has made simple by seeing the world through human eyes. We want to see in order to believe and presume that our limitations are His.

I believe firmly in God's control in life.

If we rationalize our problems when He points them out, we will spend less and less time meditating because we won't want to face God in that area of our lives.