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"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."

"But the Bible isn't a trifle. It isn't Gulliver's Travels or Great Expectations. Its author is divine, not dead; perfect, not sinful. To read it is to be changed or judged, in some measure. ... And God's Word isn't something indifferent, it masters us willingly now or unwillingly later."