Some verses that I like to turn to, when being particularly buffeted by the grievous slings and arrows of misfortune.


1 Peter 2:19-23

/ / / / / / For this is thankworthy, if for the sake of conscience toward God a man bears up under grief, while suffering unjustly.
/ / / / / / For what merit is there, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye endure it with patience? but if when you do what is right, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this finds favor with God.
/ / / / / / For you have been called for this purpose: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow in his steps:
/ / / / / / Who committed no sin, nor was guile found in his mouth:
/ / / / / / and while being reviled, reviled not in return; when he suffered, he uttered no threats; but entrusted himself to the One that judges righteously;


Romans 8:24-26

/ / / / / / For we are saved by hope, but hope that is seen is not hope; for who hopes for what he already sees?
/ / / / / / But if we hope for what we do not see, then with perseverance do we eagerly await it.
/ / / / / / Likewise the Spirit also joins to help our weakness; for we know not how to pray as we should, but the Spirit itself intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words;
/ / / / / / and the One who searches our hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because according to God He intercedes on behalf of the saints.

[i.e., *you* are one of the saints, Darien, and so am I...]


Matthew 6:27-34

Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? ... Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: and yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
/ / / / / / Wherefore, if God so clothes the grass of the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the furnace, shall he not much more do so for you, O ye of little faith?
/ / / / / / Do not worry then, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or, 'What shall we drink?' or, 'Wherewithal shall we be clothed?' (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knows that ye have need of all these things.
/ / / / / / But seek first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
/ / / / / / Therefore do not be anxious for the morrow: for to-morrow shall care for itself. Sufficient unto each day is its own evil thereof.


Wolf "take each day... one day at a time" spirit