Finding Secret Loveliness...

"It is impossible to rush into God's presence, catch up anything we fancy, and run off with it. To attempt this will end in mere delusion and disappointment. Nature will not unveil her rarest beauty to the chance tourist. Pictures that are the result of a life of work do not disclose their secret loveliness to the one who saunters down a gallery. No charter can be read at a glance. And God's best cannot be ours apart from patient waiting in His Holy Presence." (F.B. Meyer within the The Secret of Guidance)