Not to behaving with justice, self-control, and good sense.—Well, but perhaps to some more concrete action.But if you accept the obstacle and work with what you’re
given, an alternative will present itself—another piece of
what you’re trying to assemble. Action by action.
- To accept it without arrogance, to let it go with
indifference. - Have you ever seen a severed hand or foot, or a
decapitated head, just lying somewhere far away from the
body it belonged to...? That’s what we do to ourselves—
or try to—when we rebel against what happens to us, when
we segregate ourselves. Or when we do something selfish.
You have torn yourself away from unity—your natural
state, one you were born to share in. Now you’ve cut
yourself off from it.
But you have one advantage here: you can reattach
yourself. A privilege God has granted to no other part of no
other whole—to be separated, cut away, and reunited. But
look how he’s singled us out. He’s allowed us not to be
broken off in the first place, and when we are he’s allowed
us to return, to graft ourselves back on, and take up our old
position once again: part of a whole.