Godthings

“[T]he worst day of all was when it hit me that Jesus’ own most fervent prayer was refused: ‘Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.’ I must have read that verse or heard it a hundred times before without seeing or hearing. Maybe I didn’t want to see it. But then one day I saw it. It just knocked me in the head. This, I thought, is what is meant by ‘thy will be done’ in the Lord’s Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God’s will may not be the same. It means there’s a good possibility that you won’t get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer. It means you may be crucified.”

— Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow (via nachtseite)

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