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A little Bit of Peace. (LONG peace! *G*)From: Sonnet (anonymous@obgyn.net)Wed, 27 Sep 2000 01:34:46 -0500 (CDT)
Okay disclaimer first - this message, although offered in a genuine effort to support and encourage all here, is Christian in its content. If that is offensive to you, I beg your apology, but also think that the words are applicable and helpful no matter what name the Higher Power in your life takes. Thank you for understanding. The piece was in my devotional last week, and is an excerpt from a sermon given by Joseph Parker, an English preacher with a huge following in the 1880's and 1890's. He is covering Matthew 20:18-19, where Jesus predicts his death. "Jesus had told them this before and again details the Father's plan to them. Life is a plan - you will have trouble and grievous unrest and dreams that will plague you like enemies at night if you do not seize the all-restful idea that life is not a game of chance but a divine plan. The very hairs of your head are all numbered. Your troubles are all counted, your very tears as well. The valleys before you were all excavated by the divine hand. Every controversy, every crosswind, every cold, steep climb up the barren rocks - all are part of the divine purpose. No temptation comes before you but what is common to man, and with it God makes a way of escape. Our Father knows the path we take, and when he has tried us, he will bring us forth as gold. The plan for Jesus' life has about it all the beauty and massiveness of an architectural fabric: It is not a heap of losse stones; it is a building with shape and polish and high utility. So is your life. "There are parts of the plan, like this in Christ's life, that you do not like, but you must deal with the plan as an entirety, and do not suppose that the unfinished house is a complete building. Christ saw this as the whole plan, not part of a design, not one little patch plucked out of the pattern - the whole thing is here. Nothing happened to Christ that is not in this paragraph. Equipped with this plan, a man can essentially discount the future; its tragedies come to him in a sense as commonplaces; its crosses are but punctuations of a literature that he himself has written and approved as to its final outcome and significance. We are troubled because we have no outlook: we take in no field of vision; our life comes at us in little pieces, in mocking details; and not knowing what is coming next, we fret ourselves with sore chafing. The one thing we need not know is the details; The great thing we may know is the solemn wholeness." I hope this becomes as much comfort as a meditation to some other Cyster as it was to me. The thought that yes, of COURSE my PCOS was created by a God who loves me and has my best interest at heart and will not let anything outside his control harm me. The thought that our suffering is not senseless! ... well it makes everything easier. Anyway. Goodnight!
-- Sonnet
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