Once we have overcome our difficulties with the word ‘God’ and learned to let God into our lives, the result can be dramatic. We may be faced with illness, a failure, a setback; but if we wait patiently and allow God to work within us like yeast in a loaf of bread, then the problem is resolved in its own way. We have but to let God in.
To realise he is there already – the Quakers say there is that of God in everyone.
Or she, of course.
Joan Chittister’s Reflections this month are all about God and James’ reflection would have been eminently suitable to have been included – as she says, “the experience of God, or in any case, the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.