Gateway To Joy

Every experience in life,
    even the most unpleasant, 

        if offered to Jesus,

            can become a 

                Gateway to Joy.

                                     - Elisabeth Elliot 

Every experience that God 

    allows to happen to us, 

that God gives to us 

    as the bountiful gifts 

      of his love and his mercy 

         and his grace;

Every single experience 

    without exception

         can be a Gateway to Joy

IF we Accept it from His hands,

    Thank Him for it,

         and Offer it Back to Him.

                                     - Elisabeth Elliot 

When a thing cuts across

    our natural desires,

        see in it A Chance to Die. 

                                 - Amy Carmichael