I just wanted to share today's devotional from the devotional I go to everyday...<BR>(http://www.backtothebible.org/devotions/classics/streams.htm)<P>...this is for when it's hard to understand the why's of our situations....why God allowed it to happen....why He doesn't "fix" it....why we can't understand....<P>Hope it helps someone...it helped me.<P><B>It puzzles me; but, Lord, Thou understandest,<BR>And wilt one day explain this crooked thing.<BR>Meanwhile, I know that it has worked out Thy best--<BR>Its very crookedness taught me to cling.<P>Thou hast fenced up my ways, made my paths crooked,<BR>To keep my wand'ring eyes fixed on Thee;<BR>To make me what I was not, humble, patient;<BR>To draw my heart from earthly love to Thee.<P>So I will thank and praise Thee for this puzzle,<BR>And trust where I cannot understand.<BR>Rejoicing Thou dost hold me worth such testing,<BR>I cling the closer to Thy guiding hand.</B><P>Aloha,<BR>Mrs.O<P>"Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked" (Eccles. 7:13).<BR><p>[This message has been edited by Mrs.O (edited March 02, 2001).]