It is not having everything in life go smoothly that shows forth good spiritual condition, it is when things go awry and I go smoothly that shows forth good spiritual condition. -- note in my "God Calling"
That was news to me when I wrote it in 1988...up till then I believed that we could tell when God was "in it" when one of our life's hard knots got untangled with little effort on our part.
That became more difficult to hold to when life almost immediately presented a bigger, badder, uglier hard knot. Ah, and here came the slow-moving bolt out of the blue: We realized it was not meant to be untangled, it is to be accepted...repeatedly.
That's the nature of spiritual growth, I'm guessing. If it makes sense to us, we're still on the playground of time and reason. If, however, it is present within us/without us, and we know it but we know not how...that may be God calling.
There. That is a lifetime a-learning realization. According to me.
Thank you.
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