“…life is lived forward but understood backwards. We arrive at the end of our learning only to discover what has been true from the beginning.” (Jacob’s Ladder p.107)
I have read that paragraph many times since the early 1990s. Today it struck me in a different ways.
It is so true that hindsight is our gift of insight.
Looking back over various life struggles, and joys, we can understand how our life has unfolded in the ways it has.
I think of the person I was in high school, college, marriage and all the years since until now. I see how I have changes and grown over the decades.
The one constant truth for me, as a young girl, remains for me today — God is truth.
When I was younger it was true. I knew it. Yet my life was clearly more immature. I let other things push God a bit to the side of all my living. Even though I almost never missed worship.
That was same, in many ways, in the years of college, marriage and motherhood.
It was sort of like God was just letting me do life while he walked beside me. Carrying me when in need, comforting me in my worrying and picking me up when I was down.
I had an idea about God’s presence during all of that time.
However, today I can look back and actually remember how persuasive my growth gradually became toward God. God influenced me in so many active and gracious ways without me even being aware of it.
I feel so blessed to have had God at my side as, I did the best I could to live, God in Jesus’ skin taught me as a child.
More on this idea tomorrow on Jacobs wisdom.
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