This is where I keep a whole lot of stuff that I’ve written. You're welcome to read it if you like, but please don’t feel obliged.
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If men would but believe that they are in process of creation, and consent to be made—let the maker handle them as potter his clay, yielding themselves in respondent motion and submissive hopeful action with the turning of his wheel, they would ere long find themselves able to welcome every pressure of that hand upon them, even when it was felt in pain, and sometimes not only to believe but to recognize the divine end in view, the bringing of a son into glory; whereas, behaving like children who struggle and scream while their mother washes and dresses them, they find that they have to be washed and dressed, notwithstanding, and with the more discomfort: they may even have to find themselves set half naked and but half dried in a corner, to come to their right minds and ask to be finished.
—George MacDonald, Sir Gibbie