To peace along the path of agony
Dr. Roberto MirandaOne of the attributes that I appreciate most in many of the characters in the Bible is that mixture of weakness and strength that is discernible in their personality, the dark and bright areas that fight incessantly within them , and that remind me of the vicissitudes and zigzags of my own spiritual experience.
Through the years I too have struggled with the persistent and contradictory urges of my personality. On many occasions, like Paul, I have asked the Lord multiple times to free me from some secret thorn, and again and again I have had to settle for his firm but paternal advice: “My grace is sufficient for you; because my power is perfected in weakness ”.