Living out one's religious faith is a struggle at times. I am comforted by Esther de Waal's comments that our progress is not "simple" or "rectilinear." She writes that we are offered "the chance to move from slavery to freedom, the freedom of the life of the new person in Christ. This is never going to be a simple, rectilinear progress, in life or in prayer. It is a matter of many invitations of grace, some accepted, some ignored, some accepted half-heartedly, some later nullified by inconstancy. It is not easy... to accept the invitation to freedom in the risen Christ, to walk freely in the Spirit. This invitation opens up vistas too big for us, and we feel safer clinging to our prison bars, where at least we know where we are..."
Change is never easy!
(A Life-Giving Way, p. 11)
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