Read the excerpt from Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson and answer the question.


I asked them to let me go out and pick up some sticks, that I might get alone, and pour out my heart unto the Lord. Then also I took my Bible to read, but I found no comfort here neither, which many times I was wont to find. So easy a thing it is with God to dry up the streams of Scripture comfort from us. Yet I can say, that in all my sorrows and afflictions, God did not leave me to have my impatience work towards Himself, as if His ways were unrighteous. But I knew that He laid upon me less than I deserved.


What common theme does this excerpt share with the excerpt from "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"?


A) the importance of reading the Scripture

B) the impatience of ordinary people

C) the significance of praying to God

D) the serendipity of God's actions