Thought from Romans 8:

No opposition can finally crush us
No good thing will finally be withheld from us
No accusation can ever disinherit us
No separation from Christ’s love can ever befall us

Communicates the adequacy of God as our:

Sovereign Protector
Sovereign Benefactor
Sovereign Champion
Sovereign Keeper (Assurance)

Counters our fear of:

Opposition among men
Privation among men
Rejection by God
Separation from God

Communicates the decisiveness of:

His […]

 “Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:
 Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy […]

“Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are — chaff and grain together — certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath […]

“A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.” W.H. Auden (1907-1973)

“The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.” Mignon McLaughlin (1913-1983)
 

“To hurry pain is to leave a classroom still in session. To prolong pain is to remain seated in a vacated classroom and miss the next lesson.” by Yahia Lababidi (b. 1973)

“Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he
will not depart from it.” – Proverbs 22:6
I suppose that most professing Christians are acquainted with the
text at the head of this page. The sound of it is probably familiar
to your ears, like an old tune. It is likely you […]

1. First, then, if you would train your children rightly, train them
in the way they should go, and not in the way that they would.
Remember children are born with a decided bias towards evil, and
therefore if you let them choose for themselves, they are certain to
choose wrong.
The mother cannot tell what her tender infant may […]

2. Train up your child with all tenderness, affection, and patience.
I do not mean that you are to spoil him, but I do mean that you
should let him see that you love him.
Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct.
Kindness, gentleness, long-suffering, forbearance, patience, sympathy, a
willingness to enter into childish troubles, […]

3. Train your children with an abiding persuasion on your mind that
much depends upon you.
Grace is the strongest of all principles. See what a revolution
grace effects when it comes into the heart of an old sinner — how it
overturns the strongholds of Satan, how it casts down mountains,
fills up valleys, makes crooked things straight, and […]