My goodness, it sure looks like a losing streak to me: Rainy day. My Sport teams are losing. The Republicans have just killed a great bill to require equal pay for women. The recall of Scott Walker failed. The stock market is down. Fracking looks like it will be permitted. The state Democratic Party cannot get beyond its alleged sexual assault problems. My home made bread just turned into a baked lump of hard dough (yeast was too old). and My shoulder surgery is not healing as quickly as I want it to.
With so many things going against my wants and wishes, it is a good time to remind myself that the opposition to my desires may suggest the presence of another's will and purpose at work in the world. The list certainly reminds me that I am not God and that I cannot make things come out the way I want them. The opposition to my will raises the possibility of another's will at work in the world moving us in another direction.
Into such sad and disappointing times, it is good to have the conviction that the other will at work in the world may not be just other people, but that there is a purpose and a providence that means creation good. That there is at work in History another Mind, another Heart that cares for creation and is at work to bring creation and all of us into fulfillment of our intended purposes. It is that faith in the presence of God at work in the world that gives me hope that even though "my side" is not winning now, the side I want to win(which I would like to think is "my side" but which I know may not be), the God side, may be having a lot better luck.
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