[kosta50]

And the corollary is that if something does not make sense to me, it is my carnal failing alone. Thus, I "hit the knees" begging forgiveness for my pride and listen quietly and patiently as the Spirit leads me whereever He wants me to go

Yes! Repent and He gently, and ever so lovingly, pushes us back "on track."

To quote a creat hesychastic Father, "I neither fasted, nor kept vigils, nor slept on bare floor, but, to use the Pslmist's words,'I humbled myself and God saved me.'" [Saint Symenon the New Theologian, 10th century AD)

[Quix]

Yes! Repent and He gently, and ever so lovingly, pushes us back “on track.”

To quote a creat hesychastic Father, “I neither fasted, nor kept vigils, nor slept on bare floor, but, to use the Pslmist’s words,’I humbled myself and God saved me.’” [Saint Symenon the New Theologian, 10th century AD)

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Beautiful.

Alas, that pesky

The good that I would do; I don’t;

The bad I wouldn’t do; I do

is sometimes an agonizingly and exceedingly frustrating thing to OVERCOME as quickly and thoroughly in a given area as one would want.