Ever been disillusioned with life? Good.
How can that be? Being disillusioned with life in general and God in particular may well be one of the biggest pointers to the reality of God as it may well be what is needed to dispel the illusions obscuring them.
Think of it this way…
…practically speaking, disillusionment is the loss of illusion. In terms of larceny, then, it is the equivalent of having one’s high cholesterol or a perpetually bad habit stolen. Disillusionment, while painful, is evidence which shows the myths that enchant us need not blind us forever, a sign that what is falsely believed can be shattered by what is genuine. In such terms, disillusion is far less an unwanted intrusion than it is a severe mercy, far more like a surgeon’s excising of a tumor than a cruel removal of hope.
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