when God delays

I am full of hope that when God delays in fulfilling our little thoughts, it is to leave Himself room to work out His greater ones. And more and more, as time goes on, I feel that the longer He waits the more we can expect, for the deeper and wider will be the undermining, and the greater will be the band of those who will come forth free from their prison walls. When one gets hold of that vision, one can throw back in the devil's face his taunts over the seemingly wasted years that lie behind us.

~Lilias Trotter

unseen things

To the untrained eye, to be overflowing with unseen things looks identical to having nothing.