“You can’t have a good story without tension and conflict, without things going wrong. Unanswered prayers create some of the tensions in the story God is weaving in our lives. When we realize this, we want to know what God is doing. What pattern is God weaving? If God is composing a story with our lives, then our lives are no longer static. We aren’t paralyzed by life; we can hope.” Paul Miller, A Praying Life
“If someone wrote the play, Just to glorify what’s stronger than hate,
Would He not arrange the stage, to look as if the Hero came too late.
It’s almost in defeat. It’s looking like the evil side will win.
So on the edge of every seat, from the moment that the whole thing begins.
It is Love who mixed the mortar,
And it’s Love who stacked these stones.
And it’s Love who made stage here.
Although it looks like we’re alone.
In this scene set in shadows, like the night is here to stay.
There is evil all around us, but it’s LOVE who wrote the play.”
-David Wilcox, ‘Love That Wrote the Play’
love it Steven!