But then, there is God.

Had a yo-yo day. Inspired for an hour or so, then downcast after a disappointing conversation, then inspired again.... Realised my eyes were on the wrong things.

Reminded me of something I had read the other day. A quote from the old saint Hannah Whitall Smith - a woman married to a man antagonistic to God and to her. "I was passing through a great deal of questioning and perplexity, and I felt that no Christian had ever had such peculiar difficulties as mine before. I went to a deeply spiritual woman for help...pouring out all my troubles. When I had paused, expecting sympathy and consideration, she simply said, "Yes, all you say may be very true, but then, in spite of it all, there is God." I waited for a few minutes for something more, but nothing came. But, I continued, surely you did not understand how very serious and perplexing my difficulties are. Oh Yes I did, she replied, but then, as I tell you, there is God. And I could not induce her to make any other answer.
It seemed to me most disappointing and unsatisfactory. I felt that my peculiar and really harrowing experiences could not be met by anything so simple as merely the statement, Yes but there is God."
She describes how she doubted the woman's ability, but went back a number of other times with exactly the same result! And then she "dimly began to wonder whether after all God might not be enough even for my need... From wondering I came gradually to believing that, being my Creator and Redeemer, He must be enough; and at last a conviction burst upon me that He really was enough, and my eyes were opened to the fact of the absolute and utter all-sufficiency of God. My troubles disappeared like magic, and I did nothing but wonder how I could ever have been such an idiot as to be troubled by them, when all the while there was God, the Almighty and all-seeing God, the God who created me, and was therefore on my side and eager to care for me and help me. I had found out that God was enough and my soul was at rest."