JANUARY 25
May I take this trail following the Christmas holidays?
Dryness.
Haven’t we all been there? It may have spiritual roots. Or it may have nothing to do with our friendship with God. It just might be that our steps take us onto deserts of normal living.
Lethargy. Apathy. We may criticize ourselves for normal human emotions and necessary elements of our journey. After all, this lifelong pilgrimage is an adventure, and adventure must certainly include many arid places, even losing our way.
Not to worry, we say to each other, sometimes glibly, this too shall pass. Whether it does pass or doesn’t, we find ourselves coming back to basic beliefs we hold as assurance.
Those not choosing dependence on God may regard setbacks as only numerous hurdles in life to cross over. I believe we’ve been given a broader perspective. No matter the ease or difficulty of our wilderness steps, our thirst for our living nurturing God is a good thirst.
“Suffering, hunger, poverty, baffling circumstances,” my friend Harold Myra quotes Amy Carmichael, “cannot of themselves make anything but confusion. But if there be the touch of the Hand, all these things work together for good, not for ill, not for discord, but for something like the harmony of music.”
Dryness.
Haven’t we all been there? It may have spiritual roots. Or it may have nothing to do with our friendship with God. It just might be that our steps take us onto deserts of normal living.
Lethargy. Apathy. We may criticize ourselves for normal human emotions and necessary elements of our journey. After all, this lifelong pilgrimage is an adventure, and adventure must certainly include many arid places, even losing our way.
Not to worry, we say to each other, sometimes glibly, this too shall pass. Whether it does pass or doesn’t, we find ourselves coming back to basic beliefs we hold as assurance.
Those not choosing dependence on God may regard setbacks as only numerous hurdles in life to cross over. I believe we’ve been given a broader perspective. No matter the ease or difficulty of our wilderness steps, our thirst for our living nurturing God is a good thirst.
“Suffering, hunger, poverty, baffling circumstances,” my friend Harold Myra quotes Amy Carmichael, “cannot of themselves make anything but confusion. But if there be the touch of the Hand, all these things work together for good, not for ill, not for discord, but for something like the harmony of music.”
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