things to realise:

He is in sovereign control of all that concerns me, His child.

God does not ask us to understand His ways, but He asks us to trust Him implicitly. He sees the whole, eternal picture.

my lack of faith does not nullify His faithfulness

i am not the point - He is. it is not about me getting out of suffocating pain, it is about His Son being revealed in me, about God's image being released in me

(taken from mary duvel's gospel women study - college church)