WHEN WILL WE EVER LEARN?

My blinding flash of the obvious on awakening: I am wrapped in angel wings...thank you, thank you, thank you. Amen.

My angels guard you day and night and nothing can harm you. You would indeed thank Me if you knew the darts of frets and evil they turn from you. ("God Calling," June 5)

Here's a thought, a scenario: What if those "unknown darts of frets and evil" turned from us are our unanswered prayers?

What if our deepest desire, our oh-please-God-please prayer, is the one thing God knows would do us and all we love harm beyond measure?...and he protects us from it by denying it to us?

And what if we were able, through sheer self will, to get our self-determined objective, overcoming all obstacles, trampling all resistance, we got it. And after we got it, we thanked God and told all that clearly it was God's will because we had overcome so much until we got it.

What if it turned to dross a week after we got it? Would we ever think that all our woes were the result of our using our freewill to achieve the result we prayed for? Of course not. Chances are we would choose to take that as proof that there is no God, else he wouldn't have done this to us.

We are the source of all our woes. It may well be that the only thing standing between us and all our gifts is our self-will. If we will but turn that self will over to a power greater than ourselves, we can and will know that we are wrapped in angel wings and we will know peace.

We can fight no more forever, just like Chief Joseph.

Thank you.