“Let me turn my thoughts away from the torments of the troublesome moment and think of Your ever-present help and support.” (ODAT, 18 April)
The torments are never really of the troublesome moment. The
moment is always fine. The fact that two people can be in the same ‘moment’ and
yet feel very different things demonstrates this.
The torment comes from my present thinking about the
troublesome moment. Whilst the moment is to blame, no progress can be made.
When I recognise I am to blame, that the apparently troublesome nature of the
moment stems from me, I can turn the corner.
What’s the chief help and support? Firstly, the God-given
recognition that I am not God, but God is God: I do not know, but God does. And
God says: “All is well. Everything is as it is meant to be.”