Tools

"The fact that in recent years [a person] has been diminished in my eyes does not reflect on God.

"In fact I'm now thinking God also used those very faults, and my awareness of them to remind me that the instruments God uses are not what are important. Tools will rust, or break. Tools can fail us. We may discover flaws within the people who opened the doors to our spiritual journeys.

"The journey is still pure...

"I have learned not to confuse the tools with the Toolmaker.

"He is working from a Master plan."

-- "To seek and savor the lost," by Michael Main