Merry Christmas friends and family! I hope this season brings you all great joy, peace, and Jesus's abundant goodness in your lives and those around you! A psalm for encouragement to you in this Christmas season: "The poor will eat and be satisfied. All who seek the Lord will rejoice with everlasting joy. The whole earth will acknowledge the Lord and return to him. All the families of the nations will bow down before Him. For royal power belongs to the Lord. He rules all the nations.  Psalm 22:26-28 (NLT). This is from the devotional app called: "Lectio 365" that I love listening to, and would highly recommend!  I have been reflecting on the verse in Isaiah 55:8 which says: "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord". The same devotional from above also discussed this verse and had this to say: "There is considerable comfort in trusting God's sovereignty when I can't fathom his purposes." As ...