Clasping God's Hand

I hear people praying everywhere for more faith, but when I listen to them carefully, and get to the real heart of their prayer, very often it is not more faith at all that they are wanting, but a change from faith to sight. Faith does not say, "I see that it is good for me, so God must have sent it," but, "God sent it, and so it must be good for me." A person of faith, walking in the dark with God, only prays for Him to clasp their hand more closely.

- adapted from Phillips Brooks (1835-1893)