As she [Helen Roseveare] spoke, she broke off the thorns, the leaves, the petals, the green outer layer of stem -- every element that makes a rose a rose. All that was left was a lithe, straight shaft. The pieces that lay on the floor were no bad things But, she explained, they had to be removed if she were going to make an arrow. God does this to us, she said. He removes everything -- even innocent, good things -- that hinders us from being the arrows that he will shoot for his purposes at his intended target.
~Noel Piper
July 3, 2011
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