Wish I'd have known this inherently. Hope I can live gracefully with the fact that I've wronged so many people in this way---especially with those who do not yet know/hold to this truth. From Oswald Chambers:
If you become a necessity to a soul, you are out of God's order. As a worker, your great responsibility is to be a friend of the Bridegroom. When once you see a soul in sight of the claims of Jesus Christ, you know that your influence has been in the right direction, and instead of putting out a hand to prevent the throes, pray that they grow ten times stronger until there is no power on earth or in hell that can hold that soul away from Jesus Christ. Over and over again, we become amateur providences, we come in and prevent God; and say - "This and that must not be." Instead of proving friends of the Bridegroom, we put our sympathy in the way, and the soul will one day say - "That one was a thief, he stole my affections from Jesus, and I lost my vision of Him."
Watch for all you are worth until you hear the Bridegroom's voice in the life of another. Never mind what havoc it brings, what upsets, what crumblings of health, rejoice with divine hilarity when once His voice is heard. You may often see Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it. (Cf. Matt. 10:34.)
I'll try to live/listen more without judgement, reason, words. Some things need never be explained, they just have to be lived.
Remember when Bjork wore the swan dress to the Academy Awards? I bet she genuinely liked the dress...and maybe was a little sad people couldn't accept her individuality. Her words in the Lent 'Zine page "Wanderlust" this year come from the following song. Much like its lyrics, it's pretty, interesting, and celebratory of the unknown:
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thanks for sharing that quote. i had to read it a few times before it sank in.
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