By a pillar of cloud

   You led them in the day,

and by a pillar of fire

                in the night

to light for them the way

in which they should go.

              Nehemiah 9. 12

(When I ask for help,

God never leaves me stranded,

never just throws me

     an impersonal set of directions,

but guides me through His Word

    into a deeper intimacy with Him,

sometimes

        in the most unexpected ways.

God does not just give guidance.

          God goes before us.

"Follow Me through this,

         trust Me in this."

Nothing random at all.)