This just came into my mailbox ...pasted here , for me to re-visit !
The world isn't going to devote itself to making you happy! Once you accept that, you'll begin to move forward. Life doesn't always work the way you want it to. Paul wrote, "Whensoever I take my journey into Spain, I will come to you" (Ro 15:24). But he never got there; instead he landed in prison. But from there, he wrote the epistles.
Look out! Your disappointment may turn out to be - God's appointment. The Bible says, "In his heart a man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps." Aren't you glad God's in control of your life? Let the philosophers argue over why life works as it does; just focus on how to live it! If you live to be a hundred, what good is it if resentment and regret keep you from enjoying a day of it? And what good is more time, if you're just wasting the time you've got?
Remember how an oyster makes a pearl? When a grain of sand gets into its shell, instead of resisting it the oyster wraps it in layer after layer of beauty till a pearl is formed. The poet said, "This tale has a moral for isn't it grand, what an oyster can do with a morsel of sand; and what couldn't we do if we'd only begin, with some of the things that get under our skin."
God is working in everything you're going through today, for your good and His glory. So let it make you better, not bitter.
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