The Great Thing

"The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life- the life God is sending one day by day: what one calls one's 'real life' is a phantom of one's own imagination." (C.S. Lewis)

Yielding to life's circumstances is the appropriate response to the existence of a good, loving, omnipotent God who has promised that all will work together for the good of those who love him. The natural response to so much of life is to fight circumstances or try to force things into the way I think they should go. But this just refutes what I understand about God and shows my faith to be shallow.

The goal must be to be in him- by trusting and obeying, in things great and small, day in and day out. Thus our lived lives are brought into line with truth; the result is deep peace and rest. Not that these have been attained...the seeking (and the attaining) are lifelong.