Can't Fix It

Still moving on and I can't fix it.  Being misunderstood by those whom you love is the absolute pits in suffering.  Christ knows that one, too.  The double bind is an awful dilemma--our cross.

Risk more than others think is safe
Care more than others think is wise

Dream more than others think is practical

Expect more than others think is possible
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Temptation

“All temptation is primarily to look within; to take our eyes off the Lord and to take account of appearances. Faith is always a mountain, a mountain of apparent contradiction in the realm of tangible fact–of failures in deed, as well as in the realm of feeling and suggestion—and either faith or the mountain must go. They cannot both stand. ...The trouble is that many a time the mountain stays and faith goes. This must not be. If we resort to our senses to discover the truth, we shall find Satan’s lies are often enough true in our experience; but if we refuse to accept as binding anything that contradicts God’s Word and maintain an attitude of faith in Him alone, we shall find that Satan’s lies begin to dissolve and that our experience is coming progressively to tally with that Word.” [The Normal Christian Life, (Fort Washington, PA: Christian Literature Crusade, 1961), p. 56]