Ruthless Trust

I am on the women's ministry leadership team at church.  This month we meet to have the "deeper life" aspect of our meetings.  Of course even though it is on multiple calendars that it is next week, I thought it was last night.  So as I drove the yucky roads and sent Dan and the kids off to AWANA and actually kept Dan from being able to work last night, I thought on "Ruthless Trust," the book by Brennan Manning we are reading.  

It is such a strange, yet wondeful feeling to get that I don't "get God."  That the control that I feel when life is good is fickle and not true.  Chapter 5 Thinking Big  Pg. 63-64  "The same judgement is passed on the illusion of control.  When life is tranquil, relationships intact, finances secure, and physical health flourishing; when the enemy is not at the gate; when the war drums are not rattling; when the Calvin Klein perfume advertisement for Eternity for Men seems plausible- then a sense of complacency, self-sufficiency and personal command of one's destiny deludes and lulls us.  Pg 65  However, a fleeting, incomplete glimpse of God's back-the obscure yet real, penatrating and transforming experience of his incomparable glory-awakens a dormant trust.  Something is affot in the universe; Somone filled with transcendent brightness, wisdom, ingenuity, and power and goodness is about.  In the face of over-whelming evidence to the contrary, somewhere deep down a Voice whispers, "All is well, and all will be well."  

"All is well, and all will be well."