Tuesday Week10

"For instance, here is foul, impure mud in a pond. On the bosom of the pond is a lotus flower: one in the mineral kingdom, the other in the plant kingdom - a higher kingdom. How can the lower kingdom get in to the higher? By trying? By lifting itself by the bootstraps? By education about the higher life? By joining a group to study the higher life? No, none of these, except they lead to one thing - surrender! The roots of the lotus flower come down and say to the impure mud: "Do two things: be willing to cease to be mud and surrender your life to my life. Let me have you." And the mud does just that. It surrenders itself to the life of the plant, and it is lifted and transformed into the beauty of the lotus flower. It is born from above...That is its destiny." E Stanley Jones The Word Became Flesh