“When we are in the grips of illness, a major focus in our mind is the hope of getting back to where we were before this sickness began. But we are not meant to go back.”
~Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow~

I completely miss the fact sometimes that God isn’t aiming to tweak our lives or even amend our lives, but rather his desire is to give us new lives.

New hearts. New minds. And in this process he becomes like a stranger, not because he doesn’t love you or because you don’t know him, but because

We don’t recognize his coming, and at the same he is there with you, saying, that this person you’re looking for, he’s not in the past. He’s in the future.