A New Archer...

                                                                   
    Once there was a time when the archers drew their bow after their own ability. In mediocrity of accomplishment they were often frustrated with their method. Until, through the vague disappointment of countless generations, they eventually sought a different way of approach to the puzzle of improving their aim. Seeking, they stumbled upon the unraveling. They started to undo their problem, by turning it around. Seemingly walking backwards through it they began to be thankful, and even glad, that they had one.  That was the key. In every problem was the key to its undoing and a secret treasure. Thus they fell upon the way of light, and began to be lit. Soon they saw a strange thing. They were insufficient in themselves. They saw it. They had stumbled again upon another unravelling of their problem. Their own ability had been their opposer. What they knew was keeping them from knowing what they could know if only they acknowledged that they didn’t know. In remaining sufficient in themselves they were cutting themselves off from being sufficient in that which was beyond them. So they were opposing their own selves, opposing a more abundant life. They were their own enemy even. For their reliance upon their own strength was barring them from the joy of strength greater than their own to draw the bow and aim and release the arrow.                                                                           The archers heard. Each was given a new bow, and a new quiver; then how their arrows flew. Not one fell short and did not hit the mark. None fell short of life’s glory; for now they relied upon the eternal stream, the ever present strength within them which was not their own. They knew now, that of their own selves they could never shoot far enough. But with a new bow: a new reliance; and a new set of arrows: a new direction, they were to do, what they could not do. And they did. And their joy was full. 

Whatsoever is not of faith is ineffective.

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