I have led you forty years 

         in the wilderness;

your clothes have not worn out upon you,

  and your sandals 

  have not worn off your feet;

you have not eaten bread,

and you have not drunk wine

                    or strong drink;

that you may know

    that I am the LORD your God.

                       Deuteronomy 29. 5-6

(Things do not randomly "happen,"

but are seamlessly and intricately designed

       for the deepening of His life in you,

that we may not just believe

              but know.

He is not about to abandon you now.

Even in this).