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procastination - 'your need is exactly the same as the anxious worker bee above: to entrust yourself and your work to God... faith will be pressing into what you are responsible to do. in doing so, you entrust the pain of the process (usually overblown anyway) and the eventual success or failure of your project into his hands (where it has been from the beginning).'

"But you don't need to bargain with God. He has already covenanted to do and allow only what is best for you. He has sealed that covenant with the blood of Christ, shed on your behalf. Rm 8:38-39"

"But the one who determines the beginning and the end does not operate according to our timelines. He will work all things according to his purposes. Every sorrow and harm we suffer will be redeemed for good."

102: Why would God choose to care about or listen to the weeping or pleading or crowing of a sinful creature who caused his beloved Son to go through physical and emotional anguish we could never fathom? Would you offer your shoulder to cry on to someone who killed your child?

“Nothing is hidden before the One who formed my inmost being, and because I am fully known, I am fully free to love the God I know only in part.”

p22: "We are line-crossers, boundary-breakers, fence-jumpers, carrying inside us a warped belief that our heavenly parent wants to withhold from us something that is needful or pleasurable."

"God gave us emotions that are actually designed not to change unless what we love changes or what is happening to the thing we love changes."