Notes to a Young Man (4)
The earlier Notes were written after my strange encounter with The Sermon on the Mount. These next Notes followed a conversion experience that put me back on the road toward ordination.
“Now comes all the happiness and excitement, later will come the worries as to how to make things work out. Then will come doubts and misgivings and failure to see how all these things can be. Then will come calm and reassurance and work. These periods of doubt occur at times all through your ministry. I always try to remember the faith and diligence of Paul and Peter and John and James and the rest: The saints were all tested. It is not that they were so holy, some of them were, it is that they persevered for Christ. A saint always has at least one great strength and after that probably a host of annoying idiosyncracies that must have driven at least some of his contemporaries NUTS. (Why does such a nice guy act so nuts?)”
W.O.H. 11/4/1972
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