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Re: A little Bit of Peace. (LONG peace! *G*)
From: vicki (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:49:27 -0500 (CDT)
Hi,
I really liked this passage. All my life, I tried to stay postive and
remind myself that I could be in worse shape (my health, my life). In
the end I am lucky and God gave me this for a reason. I can't figure
out what the reason maybe (compassion, patience, great listener,
determination).
Everything in life is a lesson.
Take care!
At Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Sonnet wrote:
>
>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
>
>--
>Email always welcome to: sonnet_fitz@hotmail.com
>
--
vicki
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