mercy.

sometimes you want to extend comfort, but you can't.

because there are secrets 

that are yours to keep,

but not yours to tell.

mr lian said yesterday that the true Christian learns to rejoice in sufferings and trials because they are what make us perfect and lacking in nothing. getting what we want our own way is God tolerating something bad about us for the larger benefit. 

then He tries us again after we recover from the last trial.

again and again and again.

again and again and again He tries us, so that imperfect beings like us may become perfect.

but Father,

look upon us and have mercy.

simply because we are weak and You are strong.

give us this day Your strength that we may live.