4. I think, it is only when one accepts one's weaknesses that one can begin to change to achieve full flourishing.

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Just had an epiphany of a sort. For the people you know the best, you trust them not so much because of the closeness of your relationship and how much they treasure you (or vice versa), but because you trust them to go on being who they are.

Thank you God for your faithfulness. Thank you for the miracles you enact all the time. We can always expect miracles from you, because you know everything about us and the whole world around us and beyond what we cannot imagine, and you love us so much that you will use your power and knowledge for the good we do not even know of now. Thank you for providing me with companionship, for showing me hints of you, for embracing me in your unfailing love.

You are my God, my rock and my salvation. I pray that I can be as faithful to you as you have been to me.

This bliss that I have tasted; God, you are the cause. Without you there would be nothing to anchor me at the low points, and I wouldn't be so happy to be able to help others in becoming faithful and loving people.

Also, thank you, my dear friends, for your companionship and your caring. I hope that we will have much happiness in the future, both together and apart.

I wait for the Lord, my whole being waits, and in his word I put my hope.

Psalm 130:5.

Today, I felt what it means to be delighted in my trials. Delighted that God created me, that he sent me my trials and temptations, and that he is going to give me enough to handle them. Delighted that he lets me wander and grow and choose freely.

Such a feeling is transient, and I know another day I will doubt and fear and berate life. But I will try my best to remember this for those times when it goes away. I do this in the faith that this is the truth and that it will return again at the last, for eternity.