Quotes Nov 24

Our joy is like the wave as it dashes on the shore—it throws us on the earth. But our sorrows are like that receding wave which sucks us back again into the great depth of godhead. We would have been stranded and left high and dry on the shore if it had not been for that receding wave, that ebbing of our prosperity, which carried us back to our Father and our God again.- Charles Spurgeon

Faith--and good fire insurance--buoyed Barbara
Kramer, 79, whose two-bedroom home and car
were destroyed.
"Apparently, I lost everything but I haven't lost
anything," she said.  "We're Christians and
everything we have belongs to the Lord so
if it's gone, it's just things."
--Alastair Gee _The Guardian_ [November 22, 2018],
"Thanksgiving In Paradise: Californians Seek Meaning After Inferno"

Our sorrows are all, like ourselves, mortal…They come, but blessed be God, they also go. We suffer today, but we shall rejoice tomorrow.- Charles Spurgeon