God has made me forget

     all my hardship and...

God has made me fruitful

  in the land of my affliction.

              Genesis 41. 51-52

(Nothing random at all.

Nothing hopeless after all.

God redeems the hard stuff

      for His divine purposes.

Nothing but nothing

    is insignificant or futile

              in God's kingdom.

Plant a forest,

      one tiny grace at a time.

All bears fruit,

even in what we do not see,

even in what will outlive us.

And sometimes,

     we see His faithfulness

in all His glory

     front and center.

"Trust Me in this.")

O LORD,

Help us to trust You,

to keep our eyes on You,

to know that You bring about

   goodness and grace

   and Your deepest purposes,

that which would astonish us,

           if we were able

   to see it from the other side.

O LORD, You redeem

           all the hardship,

           all the affliction

for Your divine purposes

            in our lives and others'.

For Your Name.

For Your Glory.

For Your Kingdom.

You never work in

            singular outcomes,

but only the eternal.

Nothing random at all.