Kindle Notes & Highlights
“The Lord did not come to make a display. He came to heal and to teach suffering people.”
For me to say all is well can be a supreme challenge of faith, because “God is our refuge and power; / A help in afflictions that severely befall us” (Ps 45:2). It is God, not I, who makes all to be well. It is also true that our minds will fade in and out of confidence that all is well. That’s OK. All God expects is that we do the best we can with what we have.
Father Hopko used to say, “If a person wants to be sure of the road that he or she is traveling on, then they must close their eyes and travel in the dark.”
“Do not fear conflict and do not flee from it. Where there is no struggle, there is no virtue; where faith and love are not tempted, it is not possible to be sure that they are really present. They are proved and revealed in adversity.”
I would say that daily life is an immense spiritual warfare, the size of which we can easily underestimate, at our own risk.
