"God is not so very much interested in whether we reach our destination as in how we get there. To us arrival is every-thing, but to God the journey is the most important. For it is in the journey that we are perfected; and it is in the hard-ships that He is glorified as we trust Him."

As she read the words on the faded clipping scotch-taped to the back pages of her mother's Bible, author Amy Robbins knew them to be true.

We all have a way of trying to make difficult experiences hurry along. In truth, we may want to escape or ignore the very events in our lives that God would use to make a framework to shape us, and transform us. Or--perhaps we may not quite trust that God really is present in our every day life, and is actively involved in all our ways. Regardless of your struggles, what is always needful in life in an encounter with the living God.