“Shall we receive the good at the hand of God,
and not receive the bad?”
—Job 2.10
God is not a card dealer.
God is not a guy who distributes weal or woe
according to some inscrutable scheme.
God is the Love at the heart of all existence,
who is present with grace and blessing
in every moment, everything that happens.
God does not “send” us our experiences;
God experiences them with us, with love,
the “’good” and the “bad.”
Our judgments of “good” and “bad” experiences
are mostly a reflection of our pleasure or pain.
They all contain both difficulties and blessings.
Divine grace is present in all of them.
The Beloved imbues even our triumphs with challenges,
and even our disasters with possibility.
In both the good and the bad,
what we receive “at the hand of God”
is neither weal nor woe, but the hand of God.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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