life is hard... trusting that God is good all the time

I'm reflecting on these quotes today...

From Charles Spurgeon, a British pastor in the 1800's...
“Weeping is a wondrous help to those who would find their way to the heart of God! So, dear brothers and sisters in Christ, pour out your hearts before Him—pour them out like water before the Lord and when your heart is breaking for the longing that it has, even if you shed no outward tears, you have learned the sacred art of praying and you shall receive what you have asked in so far as it is according to the will of God.”

From Matt Chandler, a pastor in Dallas that we really like...
"God sends both joy and sorrow to detach our hands from things of this world and to attach our hands to Him."

From my friend Sara whose little girl is fighting cancer...
"I know that God is bigger than all of this -- that He can protect and strengthen Adah, counter every side effect. I also know that He may choose not to. But to whom else can we go? Who else has the words of eternal life? Without Jesus, we have nothing to hope in at all. With Him, we have all we need. How I want His life and goodness and sweetness to just swallow us up."

Come, Lord Jesus!