"Humans are amphibians--half spirit and half animal. (The Enemy's determination to produce such a revolting hybrid was one of the things that determined Our Father to withdraw his support from Him.) As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. This means that while their spirit can be directed to an eternal object, their bodies, passions, and imaginations are in continual change, for to be in time means to change. Their nearest approach to constancy, therefore is undulation--the repeated return to a level from which they repeatedly fall back, a series of troughs and peaks. If you had watched your patient carefully you would have seen this undulation in every department of his life--his interest in work, his affection for his friends, his physical appetites, all go up and down. As long as he lives on earth, periods of emotional and bodily richness and liveliness will alternate with periods of numbness and poverty. The dryness and dullness through which your patient is now going are not, as you fondly suppose, your workmanship; they are merely a natural phenomenon which will do us no good unless you make good use of it. To decide what the best use of it is, you must ask what use the Enemy [God] wants to make of it, and then do the opposite." page 40-41
During game night recently we were talking about how Satan remembers us from the pre-existence and knows our strengths and weaknesses perfectly, thus he targets those areas that will trip us up the most. They don't have to be huge, disturbing things, they can be the most basic of things that trip us up enough to keep up from doing and being our very best selves. I have been feeling this a lot lately and know that my stumbling blocks are the simplest of things (bouts of negativity, judgment of others, frustration with life, weariness, etc.). I wrestle with these things constantly and that sometimes adds to my frustration. I know that nurturing my spirit through prayer, scripture study and worthwhile use of time is the best way for me to combat my human side....I just wish it didn't take such constant effort!!
**Thoughts??**
Comment Window Tidbit: I am so thankful it's a 3-day weekend!
