"Beloved, let this one sink in deeply; if God allowed you to be thrown into a pit, you weren't picked on; you were picked out. God entrusted that suffering to you because He has faith in you.""When we are thrown into the pit by someone-- it can be most complicated to deal with emotionally and spiritually. We have someone to blame. The scenario has the capacity to eat us alive, but we know in the depths of our heart that it wasn't his/her intention. Pain can skew our thinking, but motives and intention mean a great deal to us. Knowing that he/she never meant to hurt us can lift us considerably in our ascent from the pit.
"When Satan bartends, he prefers to serve mixed drinks...cocktails of troubles. Take them one at a time, and you can keep walking straight. Mixed all together, they can send you reeling."
"Forgiveness is not passivity, dear one. It is power. It is not a covenant of weakness. The Christian experience is full of paradoxes. It takes far more strength and personal fortitude to fall on our knees and submit to God than stand and fight our endless battles for significance. Nothing demands more elbow grease than thrusting our arms forward and giving God the solitary right to vengeance."
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