New Lutheran Quote of the Day

Sometimes, with drastic mercy, our Father empties our hands so there may be room for His gifts.  Blessed are those who are given to by God.  Blessed are they who receive their death as a gift from His hands.  Despite the pain and the perplexity of any way of dying, we are never outside His hands, and within His hands and from His hands our deaths are a gift by way of which He brings us to the fullness of His promises. -- Dr. Norman Nagel, Selected Sermons, p. 317.