God certainly knows of some happiness for us which He is going to bring out of the trouble, only we must have patience and not run away. And then all… - Johanna Spyri

"Then you must wait," she said, "and keep on saying to yourself: God certainly knows of some happiness for us which He is going to bring out of the trouble, only we must have patience and not run away. And then all at once something happens and we see clearly ourselves that God has had some good thought in His mind all along;"

because we cannot see things beforehand, and only know how dreadfully miserable we are, we think it is always going to be so.

Heidi, it's just as if we were in a high carriage and were going to drive straight into heaven.

But she had to go to bed first, and all night she slept soundly on her bed of hay, dreaming of nothing but of shining mountains with red roses all over them, among which happy little Snowflake went leaping in and out.

The happiest of all things is when an old friend comes and greets us as in former times; the heart is comforted with the assurance that some day everything that we have loved will be given back to us. —