Stronger, better, wider, larger.

I pray that your love may abound still more and more. (Philippians 1:9)

One day Michelangelo...[examined] the work of his students. As he came to the painting of one of his favorite pupils, he stood and looked at it for a long time. Then,...he suddenly took a brush and wrote one word across the canvas...amplius, meaning "larger." Michelangelo was not rejecting the work, for it...was good as far as it went. But the small size of the canvas had made its design appear cramped. It needed to be expanded.

The Lord may have to write the word amplius across many of our lives.... He wants to increase the dimensions of our spiritual lives, widen our outreach, and strengthen our witness.