“[Trials and Temptations] Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.” (James 1:2-3)  Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society

This was today’s Verse of the Day in the widge I have in the column to the right.  Sometimes I like that passage, and sometimes I really, really do not.  But in the end…

Proverbs 3:5-6

 5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart 
       and lean not on your own understanding;

 6 in all your ways acknowledge him, 
       and he will make your paths straight.

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