What God has Made, He can Restore.

There is a particular sort of arrogance in listening to somebody describe an experience which has troubled them for years, and then informing them that they have misunderstood their own feelings because those feelings do not fit the explanation you prefer. I have encountered this often enough that I no longer believe it is always an innocent misunderstanding, because there are people who seem genuinely offended when somebody refuses to accept the identity, motive or belief they have assigned to them What makes this especially difficult to understand is that some of these people believe in God themselves the say, and have no difficulty speaking with conviction about their own understanding of right and wrong. they consider their beliefs worthy of respect, their feelings deserving of consideration and their personal experiences important enough to be taken seriously, yet when I attempt to explain my own, they immediately begin searching for some defect which would account for them.…

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