The Bright Sadness
God unties the knots of the Fall but that work means some real undoing of our broken lives. And that can and is painful at times. Don't be surprised!
It’s just not news. Seriously, you have to try not to notice that God's message since He confronted our first parents in the Garden after their deadly choice has been that He was going to fix what we had forfeited by our short-sighted thinking. God has always planned to untie the “knots” we tied in the Fall.
This consistent message is key to seeing during our “bright sadness” of Great Lent. In fact, Orthodox is a pretty big “downer” if all we focus on is church politics, the constant confrontation of being a sinner, or the unrelenting spiritual disciplines of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. That temptation of unbalanced focus will get you to do what the enemy of your soul desperately wants you to do—give Up.
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