There is a lot to take from letter 8 and the law of undulation. It is important to understand that there are periods in our lives that consist of peaks and troughs. It is good to understand the differences in you when you are in a peak period and when you are in a trough period. I enjoyed reading the part where Screw tape says, God “relies” on the troughs more than peaks to work on shape his children. I find it so true that it is when we are down and almost out, that we find God again. When we are at our lowest point we tend to draw up to Him, when we hit that rock bottom….we have the opportunity to be lifted up once more. Peaks then, are times when we feel fine in our life with our faith or whatever it maybe. These times can be dangerous though. During peak periods we can forget that we need God. Unlike in troughs where we feel the need for God, it’s where we long for him. If everything is going so well that sometimes we don’t stop to think about God.
I thoroughly enjoyed this quote from letter 8, “sooner or later He withdraws if not in fact, at least from their conscious experience, all those supports and incentives. He leaves the creature to stand up on its own legs – to carry out from the will alone duties which have lost all relish. It is during such trough periods much more than during the peak periods, that it is growing into the sort of creature He wants it to be.” it is in these troughs that we can look up and see the Almighty
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