Trusting...Turning...Going On

One of my longstanding desires has been denied. 

A good, biblical desire. 

One that would be favorable in God's eyes, I'm sure. 

I've been watching it slip from view year after year.

 It's odd to me, but now that I know it is not to be, I feel released from it. 

God has something else for me and is turning my heart toward that. 

Perhaps God's denial has been a 'severe mercy,' as Elisabeth Elliot might call it. 

And so... I trust... and turn... and go on.

God never withholds from His child that which His love and wisdom call good.  God's refusals are always merciful – 'severe mercies' at times but mercies all the same. God never denies us our heart's desire except to give us something better.

~ Elisabeth Elliot 

Painting ~ The Young Shepherdess 1885, William Adolphe Bouguereau 1825-1905
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