Take away my difficulties that victory over them may bear witness to others of Your love, Your power and Your way of life. -- Anonymous, lifted and interpreted by me for me.
It is in looking back that we realize our own experience with that very line. We can see that our difficulties are not taken away, as such, they are transmuted.
More often than not (when we've had a what's-best-for-me result in mind), to our egoic eye, it may look and feel as if our Father has ignored our prayer, abandoned us even. Ah, but...blinding flash of the obvious...our walking through those difficulties by grace and by God is the witness that is the benefit to others and to our self.
The benefit can come clearly...a gift from God...but, who's kidding whom, it usually comes disguised and often more obvious to others first than to our self.
The natural fact is that others are seeing our ego deflation and how we walk with and through it. That is their bennie. We, however, are feeling our ego deflation. That we turn quickly from that feeling to our sliver of gold in it is our bennie. Our feelings, linked with our ego, will dictate for as long as we let them.
The lesson in seeking still more spiritual growth is that there is always still more spiritual growth to seek.
Thank you.
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