God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.

The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.

When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be want what, in fact, will not make us happy.

When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand.

Though our feelings come and go, God’s love for us does not.