Don't pray for the rain to stop; pray for good luck fishing when the river floods.

Bravery is physical; courage is mental and moral.

When one is truly ready for a thing, it puts in its appearance.

We don't like waiting, but that's when God does some of His best work on our souls.

Grace strengthens us. It strengthens our hearts, awakens in us the courage to stand firm.

So do Your work, do it in Your timing, and help us to be faithful while You work.

Song—a long, winding tune that turns minor at times, major at times, but mostly is just running along in the background.

Pray and wait. That's what she had done in the past few weeks. And in the waiting came the strengthening of the muscles of faith. It was a whole-faith workout to wait and allow God to do what He wanted to do. As Clara said, it was time to just get out of His way.

Each night, without fail, she prayed for blue eyes. Fervently, for a year she had prayed. Although somewhat discouraged, she was not without hope. To have something as wonderful as that would take a long, long time.

God's generosity is nowhere better seen than in the gift of patience.

There were two rooms and she took him into one of them, hoping he wouldn't mind the fact that she was not prepared; that though she could remember desire, she had forgotten how it worked; the clutch and helplessness that resided in the hands; how blindness was altered so that what leapt to the eye were places to lie down, and all else - doorknobs, straps, hooks, the sadness that crouches in corners, and the passing of time - was interference.

C. S. Lewis put it, "We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.