Isaiah 41:18

Our heav enly Father never takes any earthly thing from His children, unless He means to give them something better instead. GEORGE MUELLER

An easy thing, O Power Divine, To thank Thee for these gifts of Thine! For summer ’s sunshine, winter ’s snow , For hearts that kindle, thoughts that glow; But when shall I attain to this: To thank Thee for the things I miss?

Over in Canada there lived an Irish saint called “Holy Ann.” She lived to be one hundred years old. When she was a young girl, she was working in a family for very small wages under a very cruel master and mistress. They made her carry water for a mile up a steep hill. At one time there had been a well dug there; it had gone dry, but it stood there year after year.

One night she was very tired, and she fell on her knees and cried to God; and while on her knees she read these words: “I will open . . . fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make . . . the dry land springs of water” (Isaiah 41:18 KJV). “Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons” (v. 21). These words struck Holy Ann, and she produced her cause before the Lord.