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"Life has a fascinating way of coming full circle."
On p. 131 of GR, Sarah has been recalling the time when, back in her high-school days, she tried to visit the Alaska Governor's Mansion in Juneau. Now, of course, she has arrived at the Mansion as the new Governor of Alaska.
She writes, "I traveled to Juneau for a basketball tournament and stopped by to ring the doorbell, but no one was home--or at least no one wanted to open the door to a curious and historically minded teenager. Now, twenty-five years later, I stood before that same door with my own basketball-playing teenage daughters. Life has a fascinating way of coming full circle."
I would like to share a few brief thoughts with you this fine morning on the expression with which the Governor concludes this passage: "Life has a fascinating way of coming full circle."
I think that, when we are caught in the midst of some circumstance or situation that tries our spirits and distresses our souls, it can seem as if we are riding on a STRAIGHT LINE right into the stink and stench of Hell.
We often cannot perceive the gentle and subtle BEND and CURVE in the line that the Hand of a Merciful Providence is working and creating … all unseen by us poor mortals!
These almost imperceptible turns and twists can transform what appear to be beelines into the pits of Hades into marvelous Celestial Circumferences that eventually, if we are faithful and patient and trusting, can bring us around not to the jaws and horrors of Hell, but to Grace and to Glory!!
When Sarah "lost" the VP race in 2008; when she was harassed and hounded from gubernatorial office in 2009 (Lefties, she did not "quit"; she RESIGNED and RELOADED!!); when barack hussein obama was "reelected" in 2012, it could appear and seem as if America was going down the dark drain of history into ignominious and irreversible oblivion.
However, we cannot perceive the full and fateful revolutions and windings and turnings of circles when we are in the mundane midst of them!!
We can usually descry and discern and detect them only when they have been fully and fairly and felicitously traced in the course of our own lives or in the course of the life of our country.
Seeming LINES of our limited vision and horizons often, in reality, turn out to be cosmic CIRCLES in the Celestial Order--circles of Glory, circles of perfection to wreathe and crown the brow of our deepest dreams and highest and loftiest aspirations.
The Lord willing, America will come "full circle" from the noxious and nocent nadir of the dark night of the "presidency" of barack obama to an apogee and zenith of glory in the restoring, the resuscitating, and --dare I say it--the resurrecting Presidency of Sarah Palin of Alaska!!!
