It is in the learning through life's experiences, in the contrasts of good and bad, happy and sad, up and down, beauty and ugliness, birth and death, that we grow. It is through these things that we gain understanding and compassion. We build strength where once we were weak, and courage where we were fearful.
Let us ask God
to help us to learn to trust that He will be with us always.
to help us to see that while experiencing life, He will be with us throughout, as our strength when we are weak and our courage when we are afraid.
Isaiah 41:10
Fear thou not; for I am with thee; be not dismayed; for I am thy God; I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
(0705 14IX2008)