a verse for you

So we're not giving up. How could we! 

Even though on the outside it often looks 

like things are falling apart on us, 

on the inside, where God is making new life, 

not a day goes by without his unfolding grace. 

These hard times are small potatoes 

compared to the coming good times, 

the lavish celebration prepared for us. 

There's far more here than meets the eye. 

The things we see now are here today, gone tomorrow. 

But the things we can't see now will last forever. 

II Corinthians 4:16-18 from The Message