“Scripture teaches us that God led his people of Israel out of Egypt and into a forty-year journey of hardship in a lonely and forbidding wilderness. And yet, at the end of that journey, they were led from bondage to a glorious land…How wonderful it would be if we could each learn to trust God in those times when we too experience the dark passages that enter our lives.”
(Fr. Andrew J Demotses in pravmir.com)

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