- Our time here is nothing compared to the eternity we will spend with God if follow His will during this earthly season. (p.110)
- Allowing your circumstances to dominate your life will destroy you in the end. (p.113)
- Living a life of “of onlys” will take away from your focus on the present. (p.116)
- “Everyone’s experience is unique, after all. What right does anyone have to dismiss or mitigate the severity of someone else’s pain?” (Sittser, 118).
- Live a life because of past difficulties, not in spite of; don’t simply survive. (p.121)
- Surrender the past to God; you cannot change it, wish it away, or deny it. (p.122)
- The cure for bitterness is forgiveness. (p.122)
- Patience. God will eventually work out all things for our GOOD. (p.124)
- Even in seemingly impossible times, or ridiculously hard (Mt Everest type hard) events, God’s presence changes everything in your life. (p.126)
- “When we worry about the future, we worry about something that does not yet exist” (Sittser, 135). Worrying distracts us from what we can do, prepare for the future by getting right with God. (p.137)
- In the end God will wipe away all our tears and stamp out all our worries and the past will mean nothing. (p.141)
- The future should be just a small hope, not a concrete plan. (p.131) “I can plan, I can predict, but I cannot know and control” (Sittser, 131).
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