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Is this __________ more powerful than God?

I started reading the Furious Longing of God by Brennan Manning earlier this week, I can't figure out exactly how I feel about it. I know that the first few pages have given me PLENTY to think about and called me out in more ways than I could have imagined, and for that I am grateful. The only downside is that for me, the vocbulary of the book is just a bit much. I subcribe to dictionary.com's word of the day in hopes that someday I can understand the words he uses in some of his paragraphs.

"In retrospect, my ponderous ponderings on the purgative, illuminative, and unitive stages of my spiritual life, my assidous search for shortcuts to holiness, my preoccuptaion with my spiritual pulse and my fasts, mortifactions, and penances have wrought psuedobliss and the egregious delusion that I was securly ensconced in the seventh mansion of spirtual perfection." (pg.66)

Ummm what? Maybe it's just me, but I think there might have been a slightly more effective way of saying that, whatever it was he was trying to say. But that is not the point, the point is that even inbetween the paragraphs and pages that I can't understand God still speaks.

He reminds me that I belong to Him, He loves me more than I will ever know or realize and, "not only does He love me, but He likes me too."

So during this unstable season we find ourselves in, I am reminded that this situation is not more powerful than God, that because He loves me, He is making all things work for my good.