(05-13-2024, 01:03 PM)FlickerOfLight Wrote: I did come back to love and peace. I started to feel that warm embrace of the Lord. I felt his presence again. The Spirit of the Lord came over me like a warm blanket. I was not alone anymore.
That does a good job of explaining it. Trying to explain it can be difficulty. Because His presence is ephemeral, yet it has a definite weight, that you don't just sense, but you can feel.
Being human comes with a lot of shortcomings. Working through them, overcoming them, making them work, may be why we can still be in good favor.
This conversation made me remember something. Way back. Way, way back, when I was in University, I was working a project in the lab. One of my classmates got an A on her project and I got a B-.
I was freaking out, because I knew mine was better. So I asked the professor why she got an A and I got a B-.
He told me that my classmate had done better than he had expected from her, but that I was capable of doing better.
I asked him if I could repeat the project, he asked me why I wanted to repeat the assignment. I told him I wanted to see if I could do it better. He told me I could repeat it, but I would keep my original grade.
I repeated the assignment, and realized I could do it better. My professor did not change the grade of the original project, but he gave me an extra grade for taking on the challenge of doing a better job on the in project, and another extra grade, for being able to identify why the original was lacking. So I ended up with an A+.
One important lesson I learned from my grandmother and reinforced by my professor.
"Any job worth doing is worth doing your best."
A little off topic, but our talk pulled this out a dusty corner of my memory.
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