God affectionately holds the entire painting of our lives in His hands and has promised to create something beautiful of it. It took George’s Seurat two years to paint A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, the famous seaside scene. Each color that the eye sees is composed of countless contrasting dots.* It is only as the viewer steps back from the painting that the picture emerges from the seemingly random dots.** When we are on the brink of despair, all we see is the color of our current situation. Our souls long for relief. When Job