GOD'S WILL IS OUR WILL...PURIFIED

Every level of growth builds on the previous ones. The principle is this: transcendence means including the previous stages. Then you can see the limited—but real—value of the early stages. -- from Fr Richard Rohr's Daily Meditations, July 31, 2013

That quote describes to a T my life experiences. Arriving at age 80, I began to experience its truth. I was being gifted with situations that I had experienced some years back...when they angered (scared) me, sent me down that self-willed road, turned me around...eventually...and I could see the limited—but real—value of the early stages.

I talk a lot about it, of experiencing again that which I newly experienced back in the day. That which when first experienced scared me, and I prayed...really hard...for it to be lifted since, according to me, it could not be God's will. 

Since that "wart of many lives" wasn't lifted, I lived to praise it for it was God's gift to me personally. My unwanted wart at its birth became a sliver of gold as I grew spiritually and has become my pocket of gold now that I am in my 80s. 

Lessons learned: A perceived problem being magically lifted is rarely God's will, God's way. God is always for our still more spiritual growth whether it seems so as we live it or not. 

God's will is our will purified...that is probably my basic life lesson. 

Thank you.