Take Heart

"I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.

John 16:33

"In this world, you will have trouble." Thank You for Your plain-speaking honesty. Trouble will come; trouble has come. I cannot avoid pain and misunderstanding in this world. But You have over come the world and given me, Your child, access to the peace that passes all understanding.

Let me put aside fear and take up that promise, not as words I have to make myself "feel," but as something solid, something to stand on, act on, and live out.