Hope is holding a creative tension between what is, and what could and should be, and each day doing something to narrow the distance between the two.
~ Parker Palmer, from a podcast with Carrie Newcomer, Episode 29, December 31, 2020
Powerlessness is our greatest treasure. Don’t try to get rid of it. Everything in us wants to get rid if it. Grace is sufficient for you, but not something you can understand. To be in too big a hurry to get over our difficulties is a mistake because you don’t know how valuable they are from God’s perspective, for without them you might never be transformed as deeply and as thoroughly.