In the latter days

   you will understand it

                    clearly.

        Jeremiah 23. 20

(Just because we don't get it

doesn't mean

      that God is not in this,

but that His mighty purposes

       are deeper than we can see,

   far more profound than

     my finite brain can grasp,

   and may not have ripened yet.

As my grandmother used to

       tell me as a little girl,

"Sometimes you just have to

           trust the LORD

and live in the mystery of it."

Her peace was

not in figuring things out,

but in

       knowing Him,

and on that she could

            stake her life.)

O LORD,

Please help us

          to trust You more,

not distracted by circumstances,

nor by what appears

             to make no sense.

Please keep our eyes focused

   not in trying to explain away

    the favorable or the hard stuff,

but in knowing and trusting You.