I believe that God/Grace/Universe always gives you more than you can handle because we’re put on this earth to grow, to understand, to learn. Dealing just with what you can handle would preclude any of that.
Sometimes Grace is a little heavy handed though and her ‘more than’ packs a wallop. Do we stagger? Do we drop to our knees? Do we sometimes even land on our asses? You bet!
There’s nothing wrong with that, so long as we stagger back up, wobbly knees and all.
It becomes a problem when we run away. When we pretend that the ‘more than’ doesn’t exist, or is meant for someone else, not us. When we bury our head in the sand.
When we catch ourselves resisting the challenge we should pay attention instead. Grace is calling us away from mediocrity, pulling us out of the status quo, egging us on to do better. She wouldn’t do this if she didn’t think we were worthwhile. And the bigger the challenge, I think, the more worthwhile she thinks we are.
Does it hurt? Yup, the important stuff usually does.
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