perspective...

"Setbacks and failures and upset plans

test my faith and leave me with empty hands.

Are You not the closest when it's hardest to stand?

I know that You will finish what You began.

And these broken parts You redeem...

Become the song that I can sing!"

"Measure your life by loss instead of gain

Not by wine drunk, but by the wine poured forth

For love's strength standeth in love's sacrifice

And whoever suffereth most hath most to give."

~Hudson Taylor

"Whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it."

~Jesus