"With infinite care and forethought, God has chosen the very place in which you can do your best work for the world.   You may be lonely, but you have no more right to complain than the lamp has, which has been placed in a niche to illuminate a dark landing or a flight of dangerous stone steps.  The Master of the house may have put you in a very small corner, and on a very humble stand; but it is enough if it be His blessed will.  Someday He will pass by, and you shall light His steps as He goes forth to seek and save that which is lost; or you shall kindle some great light, that shall shine like a beacon over the storm-swept ocean.  Thus the obscure Andrew was the means of igniting his brother Peter, when he brought him to Jesus."   

 

Words by F.B. Meyer, The Directory of the Devout Life