Well done, Catherine. I was just reading Chuck’s 10/6 Commentary. He said this re ministering to people, especially people with deep needs: “You can’t just show up with a few Scripture quotes and pep talks and make things all better. It takes enormous amounts of time….in order… [for]… Him [God, to] do His greatest work….” // It has been suggested that God moves things slowly as an accommodation to our weakness; kind of like when we take a toddler for a walk, we “toddle”, too. We’ve all tried “drinking from the fire-hose”, and “eating the elephant”, and demanding “patience right now!” God can do it, but it just doesn’t work for us. I think the words “for us” provide the key. Some have said that ultimately, everything God does He does for us. Can you think of even a single exception? I can’t. His “slowness” is on account of us. His “weakness” IS us. // Proof -- © Rolley Haggard // I bless the many weaknesses of God // Who, strangely, somehow seemed unskilled to see // The dreadful guilt behind my thin façade // Or my unfitness for eternity. // I bless the blindness that, instead of wrath, // To boundless pity caused His heart to move, // Confusing actions full-deserving death // As desperation’s hungering for love. // I bless the clumsiness in Him who found // No guilt in me, though there was much to find; // And laud His insufficient sense of sound -- // Full proof that Love is deaf as well as blind; // For even as my curses made Him bleed, // All He could hear was, Lord, attend my need. //

Lovely, simply lovely. Thank you, Catherine.