I saw this bumper sticker the other day and just had to chuckle because I could relate to the emotion behind it:

Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket?

Sometimes I just have to laugh, or I’ll cry…

I find that sometimes this world and all of its noisy nonsense
can easily steal my gaze from the one who has become my very life.

As we run to the battle, let us run with our eyes fixed on Jesus,
the author and finisher of our faith.

This from AW Tozer, in “The Pursuit of God”-

Equipment can break down or get lost,

water can leak away,

records can be destroyed by fire,

the minister can be delayed

or the church burn down.

All these are external and subject to accident

or mechanical failure . . .

But looking is of the heart,

and can be done successfully by anybody —

standing up

or kneeling down

or lying in [your] last agony,

a thousand miles from any church.

—A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God (pp. 94,95)

Stand fast, brother.