In trying to articulate my understanding of God as the first and only cause of all things known and unknown, I continually return to the moment when I first realized the hair I was splitting was my own (and numbered by God.)
"Just because God knows all does not mean that God wills all," I insisted, echoing the familiar refrain of the reluctant fence-sitter.
A wise and righteous friend looked at me and said the words that changed my life:
"If God knows the future, it is already past. Our tomorrow is God's yesterday. We should not fear nor rebuke this truth, but rejoice in our awareness of God's firm and steady hand in His creation. He has not forsaken us. It is all happening as God intends."
FWIW, once the light bulb goes on, there's no going back. All the semi's and middles and partials fade away into pseudo-intellectualism.
All that remains is a crystal-clear, humbling appreciation of God's enormity.
As Joe Banks said in JOE VS. THE VOLCANO when he was about to die, adrift in the ocean: "Thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG you were."
We all forget.
So true. Once you walk in the light , you look back at the shadows and wonder why you stayed there so long .
I think it it Jean and Wrigley that commented that the converts to calvinism are often the most vocal..tis true, cause you want to drag everyone into the light with you .
I am the most blessed of woman do you know that ?