I think God sometimes gives us tastes of His goodness in giving us tastes of the Promise but then allows circumstances to obstruct it from view to see if we’re going to rely on what we can SEE, or rely on remembering who He has shown Himself to BE.

We can’t control the timing of the seasons of life we’re in.  What we can control is who we allow the seasons we’re in to turn US into.  And it’s our approach to the seasons we’d rather not be in especially that does a good deal to determine the types of people we’ll become.

Sometimes our own expectations for our lives come at the cost of blinding ourselves to the good gifts God has for us.  We have our death-grip locked around what we want or think we need, cutting off our ability to receive or even see the blessings God longs to give us.