It is good to be home. I am grateful to be able to see my parents and relatives again. Some more inspiring quotes I found today...
"We must never forget that God's silences are not His rejections. They are preparation for a greater revelation of Him."
"God has not promised to rescue us according to our time schedule. If it appears that your prayers are unanswered, do not dishonor the Lord with unbelief. Waiting in faith is a high form of worship. In some respects, it excels the adoration of the shining ones above. God delivers His servants in ways that exercise their faith. He would not have them lacking in faith, for faith is the wealth of the heavenly life. He desires that the trial of faith continues until faith grows strong and comes to full assurance. The sycamore fig never ripens into sweetness unless it is bruised; the same is true of faith. Tested believer, God will bring you through, but do not expect Him to bring you through in the way that human reason suggests, for that would not develop your faith."
--Charles H. Spurgeon, Beside Still Waters (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1999), 148
"Christian, believe this, and think on it: thou shalt be externally embraced in the arms of that love which was from everlasting, and will extend to everlasting--of that love which brought the Son of God's love from heaven to earth, from earth to cross, from the cross, to the grave, from the grave to glory--that love which was weary, hungry, tempted, scorned, scourged, buffeted, spit upon, crucified, pierced,--which did fast, pray, teach, heal, weep, sweat, bleed, die; that love will eternally embrace thee."
--Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest (Ann Arbor, Mich.:Evangelical Press, 1978), 35
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