It would seem that when one blogs for a living, she has fewer and fewer words left over at the end of the day. Hence the absence of a post last week. But here is a quick scribble before I pass out on my pillow.
I've been learning more about profound suffering. In this instance, God is teaching me through others' stories, not my own. Like so many things that are literally upside down in the kingdom of God, it seems that a righteous response to agony is worship. I'm not sure exactly what to make of this other than that God demands our attention. And if it takes baby steps where we learn to focus on his face and transform our thinking with a thankful heart, then he will wreck and tear until it is accomplished.
I'm not sure if this has a great deal to do with beloved old P&P at the moment. But Jane experiences pain. Elizabeth humiliation. As Mr. Bennet aptly pronounces, every girl likes to be tossed in love once and a while. Perhaps it's through this tossing of life that God simplifies our perspective and adjusts our focus and is never beholden to answer our why's, although sometimes he gently chooses to do so anyway.
"Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us."--Romans 5:1-5
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