Difficulties

"Everything difficult indicates something more than our theory of life yet embraces, checks some tendency to abandon the straight path, leaving open only the way ahead. But there is a reality of being in which all things are easy and plain - oneness, that is, with the Lord of Life; to pray for this is the first thing; and to the point of this prayer every difficulty hedges and directs us." - George MacDonald

I have been consumed by this devotion this week. A friend handed me an anthology of readings of George MacDonald. MacDonald was a Scotsman whom C.S. Lewis said influenced everything he wrote.

This week this man, who died in 1905, is influencing me.

I thank God for that.