I suppose there's a way that one can accept one's youthful ignorance as part of "God's plan."
However, take contemplative prayer for example, which I began practicing in 1970. I cannot see, however much I'd like to be open to what you're saying here, how it would not have been helpful to have had access to "Into the Silent Land," by Martin Laird, which in the intervening 50+ years I consider to be the single best book written on Christian contemplative practice.
I suppose taking the Divine view, one could say that whatever frustrations or limitations I've experienced in my prayer life were meant to help me grow.
(but I still wish I had had that book and knew then what I know now:>)))
Ha ha! Yes, of course, you're right. So, too, in Rod's defense, he wasn't lamenting our fallibility, in general, only lamenting that Men Are from Mars & Women Are from Venus, in particular. I wish I knew then ... LOL!
I suppose there's a way that one can accept one's youthful ignorance as part of "God's plan."
However, take contemplative prayer for example, which I began practicing in 1970. I cannot see, however much I'd like to be open to what you're saying here, how it would not have been helpful to have had access to "Into the Silent Land," by Martin Laird, which in the intervening 50+ years I consider to be the single best book written on Christian contemplative practice.
I suppose taking the Divine view, one could say that whatever frustrations or limitations I've experienced in my prayer life were meant to help me grow.
(but I still wish I had had that book and knew then what I know now:>)))
Ha ha! Yes, of course, you're right. So, too, in Rod's defense, he wasn't lamenting our fallibility, in general, only lamenting that Men Are from Mars & Women Are from Venus, in particular. I wish I knew then ... LOL!