“Whatever is the crook in your lot, it is of God’s making; and therefore you may look upon it kindly. Since it is your Father has made it for you, question not but there is a favorable design in it towards you….
“[Since] the crook in the lot is of God’s making, then, eyeing the hand of God in yours, be reconciled to it, and submit under it whatever it is.”
— Thomas Boston, The Crook in the Lot (Christian Heritage, 2002) p. 62 & 63
