George MacDonald

Nothing could explain both my current frustration and my current hope as well as this quote from Sir Gibbie:
"The one secret of life and development is not to devise and plan, but to fall in with the forces at work - to do every moment's duty aright - that being the part in the process allotted to us; and let come - not what will, for there is no such thing - but what the eternal Thought wills for each of us, has intended in each of us from the first. If men would but believe that they were in the process of creation and consent to be made - let the Maker handle them as the Potter his clay, yielding themselves in respondent motion and submissive hopeful action with the turning of His wheel, they would ere long find themselves able to welcome every pressure of that hand upon them, even when it was felt in pain, and sometimes not only to believe, but to recognize the Divine end in view, the bringing of a son into glory; whereas behaving as children who struggle and scream while their mother washes and dresses them, they find they have to be washed and dressed notwithstanding, and with the more discomfort; they may even have to find themselves set half-naked and but half-dried in a corner, to come to their right minds and ask to be finished."