WARNING: Extended Quote. From Theologian Adam Clarke via the book “A Life Without Lack. Consider this description of God. “The eternal, independent, and self-existent Being: The Being whose purposes and actions spring from Himself, without foreign motive or influence. He who is absolute in dominion; the most pure, the most simple, the most spiritual of all essences; infinitely benevolent, beneficent, true and holy. The cause of all being, the upholder of all things; infinitely happy, because infinitely perfect, and eternally self-sufficient, needing nothing that He has made. Illimitable in His immensity, inconceivable in His mode of existence, and indescribable in His essence. Known fully only by Himself, because an infinite mind can only be comprehended by itself. In a word, a Being who, from His infinite wisdom, cannot err or be deceived; and, from His infinite goodness, can do nothing but what is eternally just, right, and kind.” It is rather frustrating how easy it is to lose sight of the One described and be afflicted by lesser things and people. “Be Thou my Vision” is a prayer request. It is an aspiration. It is a mode of thinking that would spare us from much anxiety and despair. Let’s help each other set our minds on Him and not on the things of this world.