I have had to come to the hard conclusion in my own life that moments when I feel that God's plot has been lost are sometimes moments when I am trying too hard to hold on to my own conception of it. To work within the plot I have been given, keeping in mind God's good intentions for me and letting my hope for a good life be inspired by his plans, results in a deepening of me and service to others that would not have been possible if I'd had my way. It also breaks me open--and with that, I begin to love other people.... The mercy that fills this world has no bounds; we get back what we thought we had lost, in ways and to degrees we never could have imagined.
Daniel de Roulet
Finding Your Plot in a Plotless World
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