"Love can forbear, and Love can forgive...but Love can never be reconciled to an unlovely object...He can never therefore be reconciled to your sin, because sin in itself is incapable of being altered; but He may be reconciled to your person, because that may be restored."
- TRAHERNE, Centuries of Meditation, II, 30
The only thing that changes a character in a story is conflict: pain. It makes us restore ourselves, be our best selves.
"And that is why tribulations cannot cease until God ever sees us remade or see that our remaking is now hopeless." -C. S. Lewis (The Problem of Pain)
So, since I know there isn't a one of us who isn't suffering right now, please, please remember that God is doing everything He can to restore you into a lovely object as free of sin as possible so that He, being perfect Love, can be reconciled to you.
In a sense, you are suffering BECAUSE HE LOVES YOU and wants to love you completely.
I know that's not what any of us WANT to hear, but it's what we NEED to hear and remember...
I have forgotten that. It slipped into my deep subconscious because it is easier to be an unlovely object than an object free of sin ready to be reconciled to Him, to Love. It's time I, we, know and believe the truth about suffering, about Love and pain, about the purpose of being sentient.
So we pray,
Lord, when we get weak, when we are unlovely objects, when we are full of sin, please do all that You can to restore us, no matter how uncomfortable it makes us, so we can finally be fully restored to You, to Love. Thank you Lord for loving us enough to take the time to restore us to You. Amen
"He has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense." - C. S. Lewis (The Problem of Pain)
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