Our Second Despair
by Norman Grubb

Despair is the best word, for despair means that we are finished and there is nothing more we can do about it. We have to come there, having given up completely, before we can have eyes to see that when we could not climb up to Him, He had climbed down to us; what we could not do for ourselves, He had done for us. Now, again we have to come to a second despair….Before, we learned our guilt. This time, we learn our helplessness.

Before we did not, now we cannot.

–From The Spontaneous You