Recasting Our Limitations

In recognizing our limitations we are only acknowledging what would be true even without our saying it is so.  If we can also recognize God's power and restorative nature of his love, our limitations will be no less real but there is an opportunity to know they are not so significant after all.  Our weakness is the receptacle of God's strength.  Our lack is filled by his affection for us, so that the emptiness loses its importance.  We become small shadows illuminated by the sun.  The darkness had been deep only in the night with which it could join.