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Let your loving kindness be on us, Yahweh, since we have hoped in you.

For Yahweh’s word is right. All his work is done in faithfulness.

But I will always hope, and will add to all of your praise.

You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

Increase my honor and comfort me again.

Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held my right hand.

My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.

Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.

For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.

Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.

I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with people; and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.

He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” He said, “Write, for these words of God are faithful and true.”

Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

Therefore accept one another, even as Christ also accepted you, to the glory of God.

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, “This is Yahweh’s word to Zerubbabel, saying, ‘Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

I thought that a fairer era of life was beginning for me, one that was to have its flowers and pleasures, as well as its thorns and toils.

I looked at the blank wall: it seemed a sky thick with ascending stars,—every one lit me to a purpose or delight.

She had been actually happy all the time; and dozens and dozens of the tiny, pale green points were to be seen in cleared places, looking twice as cheerful as they had looked before when the grass and weeds had been smothering them.

My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to coöperate with the good, that it may prevail.

In the midst of my perplexity I read an essay of Stevenson which made me feel as if I had been "outing" in the sunshine, instead of losing heart over a difficult task. I tried again with new courage and succeeded almost before I knew it.