shw retreat

i thank God that i was able to attend the last hour of shw retreat today...
Melanie gave each of us "Love" group a card with a verse or two.
the verses really did touch my heart...affirmation, encouragement...

my first verse: Romans 8:31 "If God is for us, who can be against us"
the rest of the passage (verse 32 to 39):
"He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all - how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies.
Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died - more than that, who was raised to life - is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
As it is written: 'For your sake, we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered'
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,
neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

my second verse came from Psalm 118:5-6:
"In my anguish I cried to the Lord,
and He answered by setting me free.
The Lord is with me; I will not be afraid.
What can man do to me?"
and yes, indeed, "Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever."