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<img src="https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/125181.jpg?w=540" width="540" /><p class="text">The Spiral of Grace</p>
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<p class="text">Most of us want to deal with life the same way we climb a set of stairs. We want to face our problem, get through it, step up and move on. Then, we want to face our next problem, deal with it, step up and move on. Once we've dealt with a problem, we don't want to ever deal with it again. We want to be done with it and never have to talk about it again. Productivity experts tell us to deal with any piece of paper only once. Either throw it away, assign to a subordinate, or take action. We want to face our problems the same way. Deal with them and only deal with them once and then move on to the next challenge.</p>
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<p class="text">Life doesn't work that way. We find ourselves coming back to same issue again and again. This can be frustrating, frustrating enough to make us doubt the goodness of God. We've prayed and prayed about this, we'll tell God in our prayers, but still You will not answer. Our friends will remind us God has promised to never put more on us than we can bear. (By the way, hearing this doesn't help). We'll begin reading Paul's testimony about the thorn in his side for which Christ would provide no relief. We will come close to despair thinking we were past something only to find ourselves confronted by it again at a moment of surprising weakness.</p>
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<p class="text">There are some good reasons for this. First, the human body and mind are designed to survive. We can endure the most horrific events and gruesome moments and stay alive. We can do this because our bodies tell our minds we can't deal with this right now. So, the mind builds a dam and holds the grief on the other side of the dam. We can function on this side of the dam. We can plan the funeral and deal with all of the details of our ...</p><p class="more"><a href="https://www.christianitytoday.com/scot-mcknight/2021/august/spiral-of-grace.html">Continue reading</a>...</p>
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