“The result of that attitude in our hearts may be that our lives become filled with such bitterness that we completely miss the providential marks of God’s continuing goodness to us in the midst of our difficulties. Like Naomi, we may be so busy complaining about our emptiness that we miss the fact that God has emptied our hands only in order to fill them with something so much better. Without Naomi’s emptiness, she would never have left Moab behind and returned to the land of promise.” –p.148-149