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<p><img src="images/stories/johnElliott.jpg" border="0" alt="John Elliott" width="102" height="91" align="left" />“In this world you will have trouble, but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world”</p>
(John 16:33).<span> </span></em></p>
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<p><em>“For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory”</em> (II Corinthians 4:17)</p>
<p>When one of my daughters was about five years old, she asked me the question: “Daddy, where do babies come from?”<span> </span>Of course, I realized that a complete answer of what causes conception and pregnancy would be quite beyond the scope of her young mind.<span> </span>I gave her a very vague and general explanation which seemed to partially appease her curiosity.<span> </span>Years later, when a fuller explanation of human anatomy and biology was presented, her response was “that sounds yucky, daddy!”<span> </span>I smiled and realized that the time would someday arrive when her perception of the entire process would most certainly take on new dimensions in her thinking.</p>
<p>Trouble, in all its various forms, angles and manifestations, is certainly perplexing.<span> </span>At the heart of our dilemma is the simple fact: <em>we are still too young</em>. We haven’t lived long enough to see the Architect’s plan unfold.<span> </span>
