"And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you. To him be the dominion forever and ever. Amen" (1 Peter 5:10"
"If you can live through a moment, you can live through a day, and how you live a day is eventually how you live your life" (Philip Yancy, Rumours of Another World , Zondervan Publishing2003 pg 56).
He quotes Joan Chittister, a modern Benedictine, "Everything we are, everything that is said to us, everything that happens to us is some kind of call from God. In fact, everything that happens is God's call to us either to accept what we should not change or to change what we should not accept so that the Presence of God can flourish where we are..." Then Yancy writes, "The goal of contemplation is to see life as God sees it, unity of two worlds {physical and spiritual} and not a division. That encompasses both a lifetime of practice and rare, single flashes of revelation" (pg 57).
We will go back to Peter's letter for the final point. "To him be the dominion forever and ever. Amen"
