Make a salt lick and the deer will die.  They become predictable.  And predators learn quickly to watch that spot.

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Learn to love the sound of a barking dog at night.  For that dog will be silent in the morning.

Look at the bare trees in the winter and marvel at their potential for shade in the summer.  For they are engines of beauty at rest.

Take a lesson from the book of Enoch.  He learned to love the hand of God in every form.  Life, death, health, sickness, wise, and stupid, wealth and poverty; God is at work among us all.  Who among us has been able to say, “I made all this”?  Who among us knows what the death or birth of a fly will cause in the end of things?

Grass will green with warmth and rain.  Rocks will break down into sand.  Clouds will pass without leaving anything more than the memory of a shadow.  And sometimes a cloud will wash away even the most firm foundation.  Who can stop what is to be?  And who can cause what is not to become what has been?

God is sovereign.  His name to man is Jesus.  Who can force the Lord to speak?  And who can silence Him when He utters commands?  Be man and be silent in your thinking.  Judge not, the Lord’s ways, and you will not be judged.  Keep your idle heart free from hatred of what is.  Learn to love every aspect of life.  God is not idle.  So be patient.  Be hopeful.  Be respectful of what you do not understand, and wait on the Lord’s powerful hand.  Horror will turn to joy.  And joy will turn to horror.  Listen to the Lord’s commands and live.

By His Grace.