Life. Approach to life varies according to the liver....or should that be livee? Some are charged while others feel subdued. Celebration or frustration or both are always within our grasp. I wish to awaken you to the value of your dark days.
I am preparing to teach a new class this quarter called BREAKTHROUGH. The thrust of it will be to encourage us regarding the dark times that tend to shut us down. I especially like how Sue Monk Kidd puts it out for all to ponder:
Whenever new life grows and emerges, darkness is crucial to the process. Whether it's the caterpillar in the chrysalis, the seed in the ground, or the child in the womb, or the True self in the soul, there's always a time of waiting in the dark.
Always....a time of waiting in the dark. Darkness is crucial, Kidd insists.
Darkness isn't the stage for depression. Neither is it the banner for misery. No, not at all. Darkness is the incubation of wonder, of glory....of truest life!
Certainly, many things don't go our way. Each time we experience this, if we aren't keen to the Spirit, we will believe that one more life-candle is being snuffed. But, not true. Each dark setback is preparatory significance to the continual new birth process which is very real; very perpetually real.
Be encouraged. Even discouragement bows to the Life of Jesus born in us.
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