We Are Equipped

"We are the recipients of a spiritual survival kit that includes everything we require. Whatever the threat or complication, we have what we need to cope. It's not miles away on a distant shelf, or in a pharmacy; it is already within us, just waiting to be opened and put to use.

I know that we often don't feel equipped. We look at the challenges in our life and think we are empty-handed. But we are not...

We travel through life with the survival kit of God's grace."

-Gracia Burnham

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