To Choose. To Learn. To Change.
My Dear People,
"In a mysterious fashion not completely understandable to us, everything moves the individual toward humility." -- Roland Merullo, author
In an interview printed at the back of one of his novels, the interviewer asks Merullo about the statement above, which the novelist had made at some earlier point, while explaining his own beliefs. Merullo elaborates, saying, "...it seems to me that life is a kind of boot camp, designed to break you down and build you up in a different way--if you let it. So you lose your ability to sprint a hundred yards, but maybe you gain something more important in the process."
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I can't help but be reminded of something that a spiritual teacher, a wise woman, once taught me: when there is something the cosmos would teach us, and which we resist learning, another opportunity to learn that same wisdom will, invariably, come back around and present itself to us; and, when it does come back around, the pain involved in the learning will be greater. And so on and so on and so on, until we learn what we need to learn.
That sounds about right to me.
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The good news is that we can choose.
We can learn.
And we can change.
Thanks be to God,
your brother in Christ,
Wallace+
