Life will become one great romance when God is doing the aiming...

"A saint's life is in the hands of God like a bow and arrow in the hands of an archer. God is aiming at something the saint cannot see, but our Lord continues to stretch and strain, and every once in a while the saint says, 'I can't take any more.' Yet God pays no attention; He goes on stretching until His purpose is in sight, and then He lets the arrow fly. Entrust yourself to God's hands. Is there something in your life for which you need perseverance right now? Maintain your intimate relationship with Jesus Christ through the perseverance of faith. Proclaim as Job did, 'Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him' (Job 13:15).

...even though you cannot see Him right now and cannot understand what He is doing, you know Him.... Faith is the supreme effort of your life -- throwing yourself with abandon and total confidence upon God.

...He wants us to venture our all with total abandoned confidence in Him.... The real meaning of eternal life is a life that can face anything it has to face without wavering. If we will take this view, life will become one great romance -- a glorious opportunity of seeing wonderful things all the time." (pink emphases mine) ~ excerpt from May 8, My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers

“You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses” ~from comic strip, Ziggy

"I have set the LORD always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest secure...." ~Psalm 16: 8-9