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September 29, 2011
CAC Cottonwood: autumn, winter, spring, summer. CAC archives.
To Everything a Season:
A time to gain and a time to lose-
Feast of Michael and all Angels
On the spiritual path, it is not optional to know ourselves. It’s not optional to be willing to make mistakes. Such qualities are essential. They lead to the gradual growth of a person “to maturity, to the measure of the full stature of Christ” (Ephesians 4:13). The reason we sin and suffer is not because we are weak or wrong but simply because we are human. In this school of humanity sin abounds, but grace abounds even more (Romans 5:21). God uses human imperfection to achieve divine perfection; God uses weakness to create strength (2 Corinthians 12:10); God uses humans to create sons and daughters of God.
Being human means to be imperfect, to be limited, and thus to change and travel on a perpetual journey. Mature spirituality gives us the ability to live joyfully in an imperfect world. This is important because an imperfect world is the only one we have. And if God does not love imperfect humans, God has no one at all to love! We admire the angels today, but we are not and never will be angels.
From On the Threshold of Transformation: Daily Meditations for Men, p. 264
Starter Prayer:
Teach me the wisdom of the seasons.
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