Oh well! - Sarah Young

Try to see things more and more from My perspective.


Let the light of My Presence so fully fill your mind that you view the world through Me.


When little things don't go as you had hoped, look to Me lightheartedly and say, "Oh, well!"


This simple discipline can protect you from being burdened with an accumulation of petty cares and frustrations.


If you practice this diligently, you will make a life-changing discovery: you will realize that most of the things that worry you are not important. If you shrug them off immediately and return your focus to Me, you will walk through your days with lighter steps and a joyful heart.


When serious problems come your way, you will have more reserves for dealing with them. You will have not squandered your energy on petty problems.


You may even reach the point where you can agree with the Apostle Paul, that all your troubles are light and momentary compared with the eternal glory being achieved by them.

A man's steps are directed by the LORD. How then can anyone understand his own way?
Proverbs 20:24

For our light and momentary troubles are achieving us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

2 Corinthians 4:17-18

Dean Koontz comments on Evil --

The devil and all his demons are dull and predictable because of their single-minded rebellion against truth. Crime itself --as opposed to the solving of it-- is boring to the complex mind, though endlessly fascinating to the simpleminded.

One film about Hannibal Lecter is riveting, but a second is inevitably stupefying.

We have a series hero, but a series villain quickly becomes silly as he strives so obviously to shock us.

Virtue is imaginative, evil repetitive.

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Some people misunderstand evil and believe it will relent, and because their misplaced hope inspires dark hearts to dream darker dreams, they are the fathers and mothers of all wars.

Evil does not relent; it must be defeated. And even when defeated, uprooted, and purified by fire, evil leaves behind a seed that will one day germinate and, in blooming, again be misunderstood.


---From Odd Apocalypse, by Dean Koontz