Graham Greene's character, Harry Lime is an appealing rogue for he represents the incessant hurry of the less than attractive nature of the human person to work over time in anticipation of achieving self improvement, otherwise known as feathering ones nest as a means to address the insecurities that life bestows upon all fated to live with a will to better our selves by whatever means will produce the desired result.
The well worn traveller eventually realises that it is through our trials, failures, and disappointments that we learn more about who we are becoming when coping with, and surmounting all that life hurls at us with a will to build our resilience to face the next ordeal, just over the horizon advancing towards us at a speed triggering our responses with an eagerness not just to survive, but to triumph over all that adversity dares to impose on those of us determined not to surrender to our fear of failure.
Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.~Isaiah 41:10
Our Father invites each of us to let Him guide us through those moments, those months when all appears lost with our sense of direction obscured in a cloud of unknowing defying our rational understanding how best to resolve the inexplicable calamity constantly dogging our steps like a shadow dragging us down into a pit filled with uncertainty and misery.
Not seeing God does not stop Our Father intervening through a fellow traveller who just happens to appear out of the fog, providing us with the means to recover our self confidence, comforted that a stranger had become our salvation when our rational self had surrendered to our despair that all was lost.
“You needn't be so scared. Love doesn't end. Just because we don't see each other...” ~ Graham Greene
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