some parting thoughts:

** Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering. ... The love of God did not protect His own Son. ... He will not necessarily protect us - not from anything it takes to make us like His Son. A lot of hammering and chiseling and purifying by fire will have to go into the process. - Elisabeth Elliot


** "Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows." This grief, this sorrow, this total emptiness that empties my hand and breaks my heart, I may, if I will, accept. And so by accepting it, I find in my hands something to offer. And so, I give it back to Him, who in mysterious exhange gives Himself to me.

- Elisabeth Elliot, These Strange Ashes


** Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is." - Amy Carmichael


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so long, and thanks for all the fish