Q. What do you understand by the providence of God?

A. Providence
is the almighty and ever present power of God
by which he upholds,
as with his hand,
heaven and earth
and all creatures,
and so rules them
that lead and blade,
rain and drought,
fruitful and lean years,
food and drink,
health and sickness,
prosperity and poverty—
all things, in fact,
come to us not by chance
but from his fatherly hand.


Q. How does the knowledge of God’s creation and providence
help us?

A. We can be patient
when things go against us,
thankful
when things go well,
and for the future
we can have good confidence
in our faithful God and Father
that nothing
will separate us from his love.
All creatures
are so completely in his hand
that without his will they can neither move nor be moved.

Questions 27 and 28 from the Heidelberg Catechism. HT: Kevin DeYoung

W. B. Yeats, "Why Should Not Old Men Be Mad?"

Why should not old men be mad?
Some have known a likely lad
That had a sound fly-fisher's wrist
Turn to a drunken journalist;
A girl that knew all Dante once
Live to bear children to a dunce;
A Helen of social welfare dream,
Climb on a wagonette to scream.
Some think it a matter of course that chance
Should starve good men and bad advance,
That if their neighbours figured plain,
As though upon a lighted screen,
No single story would they find
Of an unbroken happy mind,
A finish worthy of the start.
Young men know nothing of this sort,
Observant old men know it well;
And when they know what old books tell
And that no better can be had,
Know why an old man should be mad.

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