God makes allthings Turn to the Best

Catherine's quote for today:




We should never falter in our confidence that
God makes all things turn to the best.



Yesterday I was working with one of our elders on some paperwork that we needed to be have done. Part of it was the advanced directives for health care and funeral arrangements. It was very hard for her to do. The experience was difficult for me as well. One of the things I assured her was that she was to make the decisions; that I was merely the scribe. When it came to signing her name. she could not do it well and she burst into tears. I assured her that it was fine and in the end, though a hard time for both of us, there was peace.

As we go through life, there are hard decisions and decision we have to make with no guarantee that they are right. God helps us in that. If we look for the blessings even in the hard stuff, we will see and experience the hand of God, guiding us, despite our poor choices. Oftentimes we hear it said that if the decision we made not been poor we would not have found this good part.

I think of a woman who becomes pregnant without necessarily wanting to. The result is this wonderful person, this child, that could not have been there without that choice. It doesn't make the choice good, but God can work good out of poor choices. So let us never falter in our confidence that God is there and God can make all things turn out to the good.

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