"Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger (wo)men. Do not pray for tasks to be equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be a miracle."
Did you really read that? Stop and read it through again.
This just blows me away. When I stop and think about all the things I pray for - I almost always come at it from other side: easy life, tasks equal to my powers, the miracle outside myself.
But he (Bishop Phillips Brooks) is right - what kind of testament is that?
I'd rather be the miracle.
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