1:
Goodness never fails—it draws to us in sorrow. God brings that goodness underneath our feet. The only stone he sends is the stone that anchors us in sorrow. We can bear it all through him.
2:
What man is there of you, who, if his son ask bread, will give him a stone?
3 Ne 14:8
3:
The experience of drawing near to goodness in the midst of sorrow, of approaching it, is allowed for, made possible by, the belief that this goodness already draws near to us, that it does not await our sinking. The rock we touch in the midst of [sorrow] is there because we are there and not simply because we happened to drift in its direction.
Jeffrey Vogel, All Manner of Things
4:
There is a strength in proving that it can be borne
Although it tear
Emily Dickinson, Poem #1113