There is a page in "God Calling" where it is set forth that we must take joy in the gray days...that our hard lesson of the gray day will be repeated until we do.
There are those who believe that welcoming, that the Thank You prayer, that joy in the dark is just malarkey, plain and simple. Whenever we hit a rough patch, we can count on one or more to rather gleefully ask, "So where's your good in this?!"
The bane is the boon.
The resulting gift from looking our Monster in the eye, calling it by its name, "Monster," comes with our changed mind...in effect, we see it for the "puddy tat" it is, or a raised consciousness if you will. How else can we learn to never try to dodge a fear (which is all the Monster is, of course), or to desperately call it Good, hoping that'll change it? That changes neither "it" nor our mind.
Most everybody I know feels at some point in life that they have gone through the crucible, crashed and burned, and emerged as gold. It was that bane that gave them their boon. There. That is my God's instruction book for us for life. Use it or lose it.
Thank you.
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