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Interruptions?

I would like to make 2013 a year where I delight in “interruptions.”  Personally, I can talk a lot about God’s sovereignty, but I also easily forget that He is in control of every aspect of my life, especially when my day doesn’t go as I hoped.  Though I work out a plan, He is the ultimate planner. I read this blog today and was encouraged.  The author quotes C.S. Lewis who has a great truth about the subject.  I think this quote needs to go where I can read it every day in 2013…

“The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one’s ‘own’, or ‘real’ life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one’s real life – the life God is sending one day by day: what one calls one’s ‘real life’ is a phantom of one’s own imagination.”

(from a 1943 letter from C.S. Lewis, included in Yours, Jack: Spiritual Direction from C.S. Lewis)

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Roger Knowlton

6 responses to “Interruptions?”

  1. Prudence Avatar
    Prudence

    That is just brilliant. Thank you.

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  2. JoAnn Karls Avatar
    JoAnn Karls

    So, there’s not really any interruptions, it’s just life playing out the way God wants it?

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    1. rogerknowlton Avatar
      rogerknowlton

      Oh, there are interruptions, I think, but they are really God tapping you on the shoulder. This changes the way we see them, no?

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  3. Jean Avatar
    Jean

    Good, because I have to interrupt you a lot. 🙂

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  4. rogerknowlton Avatar
    rogerknowlton

    Hah! I didn’t think about that…I take it all back.

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  5. JoAnn Karls Avatar
    JoAnn Karls

    I like “God tapping you on the shoulder”. Now that’s an interruption I could live with 🙂

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