Wheelchairs = Gifts

"Even though I have rough moments in my wheelchair, for the most part I consider my paralysis a gift. Just as Jesus exchanged the meaning of the Cross from a symbol of torture to one of hope and salvation, He gives me the grace to do the same with my chair. If a cross can become a blessing, so can a wheelchair. The wheelchair, in a sense, is behind me now. The despair is over. There are now other crosses to bear, other "wheelchairs" in my life to be exchanged into gifts." ~ Joni Eareckson Tada

Mourning

"I believe the holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him." ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Misdiagnosis

"Nothing is more often misdiagnosed than our homesickness for Heaven. We think that what we want is money, sex, drugs, alcohol, a new job, a raise, a doctorate, a spouse, a large-screen television, a new car, a vacation. What we ­really want is the person we were made for, ­Jesus, and the place we were made for, Heaven. Nothing less can satisfy us." Your name and renown are the desire of our hearts (Isaiah 26:8). ~ Repost from Randy Alcorn

Suffering Can Perfect

"We all know people who have been made much meaner and more irritable and more intolerable to live with by suffering: it is not right to say that all suffering perfects. It only perfects one type of person...... the one who accepts the call of God in Christ Jesus." ~ Oswald Chambers