Me Thinks

 

Tonight our Book Club had a wonderful discussion about this book.  It was an unusual night in that everyone seemed to have liked the book. There were many lines and paragraphs that I have reread and pondered.  Here is a sampling:

When Naomi passed, I asked God to take away the pain.  I believed he could, and I pointed out to Him that doing so made sense.  Spare me this grief so I can get back to work, I told Him.  But He didn't; He saw me through the pain, but He didn't take it away.  He honors our sorrow by allowing us to experience it.  How else to deepen us? How else to increase our trust? Instead of fighting the pain, He asks us to surrender to it. Only then can it begin to heal us.  Thank Him for the emptiness.  He will fill it when He sees fit (pgs. 272, 273).

I have come to accept that at present I have only a partial view of reality; there are answer I will not be given until I leave this life.  I know that my Lord is the God of wheat fields and oak tress, of mountains and valleys. and that His answers, like HIs works, often require time (pg. 278).

This growing old is the great test, you know--the challenge we've been preparing for all along (pg. 264).