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is relative. The counsel of the years tells us that what we think is
worth getting upset over now we will probably laugh about in a
decade. Yet those things that might concern us a decade from now, as
we look at them now, confuse us as to exactly how to handle them. The
counsel of the years speaks into our speaking - we say too many
things that are false, ill-considered, unguarded, and panicked by
comparison to the calm deliberation the years give us.
The
counsel of the years gives us perspective regarding our hurts. Those
betrayals we must bear, those where it is one person's perspective
versus another's, are the betrayals that will betray our
sensibilities for reason. But it takes a few years of contemplation
to arrive at the fuller maturity of truth. The counsel of the years
provides reason to exercise grace whenever we can. We begin to see
that everyone - in general terms - is trying their level best. The
only ones who aren't are those who aren't trying at all. With people
who are committed to their worldview they will rarely be convinced
otherwise. And why would they. They ought to be commended for their
commitment, even if we cannot agree with them.
The
counsel of the years commends us to be kind to people and be harsher
on ourselves. If we can take responsibility for what we should now,
then we will have fewer regrets later, when we are left with what we
are left with. Through the compassion of kindness we are eternally
blessed, but through a short-sighted stinginess based in laziness we
miss opportunities we never knew we missed.
The
counsel of the years makes meaning for life when we might worry that
we suffer in vain. Only through the counsel of years can see that God
can rebuild anything, and that many rebuilds are classic innovations
of divinity that not only resurrect but ascend, too. Suffering is so
often the gateway to life we never thought would ever come again.
Suffering can often produce something that was never ours beforehand.
Suffering reinvents us, but only through the counsel of the years.
The
counsel of the years places importance on those things that are hard
but worthwhile instead of those things that provide pleasure but are
fleeting. It is hard to eat for health, yet the reward is redeemed as
the years unveil favour.
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