Taken from 'Streams in the Desert'-The Heavenly Life
Sorrow, under the power of divine grace,
performs various ministries in our lives.
Sorrow reveals unknown depths of the soul,
and unknown capacities for suffering and service.
Light-hearted, frivolous people
are always shallow and are never aware
of their own meagerness or lack of depth.
Sorrow is God's tool to plow the
depths of the soul,
that it may yield richer harvest.
If human-kind were still in a glorified state,
having never fallen,
then the strong floods of divine joy
would be the force God would use
to reveal our soul's capacities.
But in a fallen world, sorrow,
yet with despair removed,
is the power chosen to reveal
us to ourselves.
Accordingly,
it is sorrow that causes us
to take the time to think deeply and seriously.
Sorrow makes us move more slowly
and considerately
and examine our motives and attitudes.
It opens within us
the capacities of the heavenly life,
and it makes us willing
to set our capacities afloat
on a limitless sea of service for God
and for others...
...it takes sorrow to
expand and deepen the soul.
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