[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"reading-0212":3},"FEBRUARY 12\r\nYour heavenly Father knoweth (Matt.6:32).\r\nA visitor at a school for the deaf and dumb was writing questions on the blackboard for the children. By and by he wrote this\r\nsentence: \"Why has God made me to hear and speak, and made you deaf and dumb?\"\r\nThe awful sentence fell upon the little ones like a fierce blow in\r\nthe face. They sat palsied before that dreadful \"Why?\" And then a little girl arose.\r\nHer lip was trembling. Her eyes were swimming with tears. Straight to the board she walked, and, picking up the crayon, wrote with\r\nfirm hand these precious words: \"Even so, Father, for so It seemed good in thy sight! \" What a reply! It reaches up and lays hold of\r\nan eternal truth upon which the maturest believer as well as the\r\nyoungest child of God may alike securely rest-the truth that God is your Father.\r\nDo you mean that? Do you really and fully believe that? When you\r\n\r\ndo, then your dove of faith will no longer wander in weary unrest, but will settle down forever in its eternal resting place of peace.    \"Your Father!\"\r\nI can still believe that a day comes for all of us, however far off\r\nit may be, when we shall understand; when these tragedies that now blacken and darken the very air of heaven for us, will sink into\r\ntheir places in a scheme so august so magnificent so joyful, that  we shall laugh for wonder and delight. Arthur Christopher Bacon.\r\nNo chance hath brought this ill to me; 'Tis God's own hand, so let it be,\r\nHe seeth what I cannot see.\r\nThere is a need-be for each pain,  And He one day will make it plain  That earthly loss is heavenly gain. Like as a piece of tapestry\r\nViewed from the back appears to be\r\nNaught but threads tangled hopelessly;\r\nBut in the front a picture fair\r\nRewards the worker for his care,\r\nProving his skill and patience rare.  Thou art the Workman, I the frame. Lord, for the glory of Thy Name,\r\nPerfect Thine image on the same. --Selected.",1783499792049]