There is a natural sweetness in everyone, that goodness in our nature that came to us from God with our birth. It just happened that a lot of us let the bitterness in life change their nature slowly as they grow old. Will that natural sweetness be restored? We don't know. Maybe when we learn to remove that bitterness from our heart. Maybe when we come to have a full grip again on who we are.
Encountering oppositions and criticisms can mean that we have at last taken a stand worthy of our gifts. But what we need to be careful about in facing the strong winds in our lives is the temptation to forget that we stood strong and tall against the elements not on our own strength but through the grace of God that works in us. Forgetting this truth will make the triumph against the wind as meaningless as our fall before it. For either way does not make us closer to the God who loves us endlessly.
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