See, I am making all things new. Revelation 21:5.

Norman Vincent Peale, the well-known 'positive thinker' was sitting one time in the co-pilot's seat of a DC-6 in the Far East in an area where typhoons roam violently over land and sea. He asked the pilot about the problems of flying aircraft in typhoon territory. 'Well,' he drawled, 'they're not exactly anything to fool with. They may cover an area of three to five hundred miles and consist of circular high winds rotating counter-clockwise.' Well, asked Dr. Peale, what do you do when you encounter a typhoon? 'Oh,' he replied, 'one thing is sure. I don't try to buck it. I just get on its edge and go the way it's going. In that way I turn typhoons into tailwinds.'

Life's fortunate people are those who turn trouble into triumph, who refuse to believe that they have to be prisoners of the 'humdrum'. They have a zest and vitality not because everything's going their way, but they have tapped the creative forces deep within them, and allowed the child within them to express an enthusiasm for life that is not stymied by problems or difficulties.

As someone has wisely said, the basic problem most people have is that they're not doing enough to solve their basic problem!

Help me to believe that the person who found he had no more problems and got down on his knees and asked 'Lord, don't you trust me anymore?' wasn't a nut! Amen.

LIVE A DAY AT A TIME

Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own. Today's trouble is enough for today. Matthew 6:34.

George Santayana was a Spaniard by birth, but adopted America as his home. Sometimes he formed his philosophy into poetry. For example:

It is not wisdom to be only wise,
And on the inward vision close the eyes,
But it is wisdom to believe the heart...
Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine
That lights the pathway but one step ahead
Across a void of mystery and dread.

One step ahead. Live in daytight compartments, said Jesus one day at a time. All sorts of troubles will fly at you from yesterday, today and tomorrow. Have you heard of the cartoon character who said to himself 'I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages!' as bullets whistled around him?

Having problems is what life is about, so it can't be all that bad. We have a special place for people with no problems - it's called a cemetery.

Some problems I cannot solve, Lord, so I ask for a gift of 'faithful resignation': the faith to know that if I hand them over to you they're in good hands. Amen.