Good Fortune

“All fortune is good—whether be it harsh or be it pleasing . . .yet I know not who would dare to say so to foolish men, for no fool could believe it.” Charles Williams, quoting Boethius in The Descent of the Dove.

"Charles Walter Stansby Williams was most often associated with the Inklings (a group of Christian writers including J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis), Williams was also cited as a major influence on W.H. Auden's conversion to Christianity and he was a peer and friend of T.S. Eliot, Dorothy Sayers and Evelyn Underhill." From the website: http://tomwills.typepad.com/thenewchristianyear/

Tomorrow is another Friday the 13th. I have always claimed those as my "lucky" days. My thirtheeth birthday fell on a Friday the 13th in 1961. But luck has nothing to do with our lives as Christians. "All good things come from the father," (James 1:17) and our "fortune is good."

Romans 8: 22-28 NIV
We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.
In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God. In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God. And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.