“I think of a physician whose son was born with an incurable birth defect, leaving him crippled for life. I asked the father how he felt when he, someone who had dedicated his life to treating the illnesses of other people, was confronted with an incurable condition in his own son. He told me his biggest struggle was the tendency to capsule the next twenty years of his son’s life into that initial moment when he  learned of his son’s condition. Viewed that way, the adversity felt overwhelming. God does not give twenty years of grace today. Rather, He gives it day by day. As the song says: ‘Day by day, and with each passing moment, Strength I find to meet my trials here; Trusting in my Father’s wise bestowment, I’ve no cause for worry or for fear.’”