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Me: What are you doing over yonder’?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prodigal: Thinking about my prayers to God from the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Me: Great reflection<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is from J. Oswald Sanders in Robust in Faith<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I asked of God that He should give success<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To the high task I sought for Him to do;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I asked that every hindrance might grow less<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that my hours of weakness might be few;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I asked that far and lofty heights be scaled—<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And now I humbly thank Him that I failed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For with the pain and sorrow came to me<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A dower of tenderness in act and thought;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And with the failure came a sympathy,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An insight which success had never brought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Father, I had been foolish and unblest<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If Thou hadst granted me my blind request.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Habakkuk 3:17-18<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the LORD; I will take joy in the God of my salvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n

www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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