Quote of the Day

"It is bad enough to wait in hope, to see no glimmer of a prospect and yet refuse to despair; to have nothing but night before the casement and yet to keep the casement open for possible stars; to have a vacant place in my heart and yet to allow that place to be filled by no inferior presence -- that is the grandest patience in the universe.
...There is no patience so hard as that which endures, "as seeing him who is invisible.", it is the waiting for hope.
...Thou has made waiting beautiful...Thou has taught us that the Father's will may be received just because it is His will.  Thou hast revealed to us that a soul may see nothing but sorrow in the cup and yet may refuse to let it go, convinced that the eye of the Father sees further than its own.
...Give me this divine power to wait for hope itself, to look out from the casement where there are no stars.  ...I shall reach the climax of strength when I have learned to wait for hope."
~ George Matheson (Streams 235)