"What you think you can’t handle — might actually be God handing you a gift."
"...Giving thanks isn’t a pollyanna game — but a powerhouse game-changer...."
"...And a gravelly voice speaks of cancer and a grave and a child whose name she wears around her neck, and we finger that name together and
fiercely believe in a Father who knows and holds and cups like relief, like a lung, when we can’t breathe."
"And I think of everything I have chaffed against and railed about and howled to the heavens and who am I to know what is best or not — but
when you bow and surrender to the sovereignty of God then you are in the posture to receive all as a gift."
Direct quotes above copied and pasted from: http://www.aholyexperience.com/2012/...nge-our-lives/ This book referred to in the link , "One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to live Life Fully" was what spurred me on to keep a Gratefulness List of some of God's ordinary and extraordinary treasures for me has been such a rich blessing.