Anne Morrow Lindbergh wrote about the dance of love
"When you love someone you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even an lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships, We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity, in the freedom [to allow the ebb and flow]."
(The brackets is what I added in order to complete her thought. Freedom with out direction is not freedom at all)
Such it is with our relationship with God. We expect the duration of feeling close to linger through out our life, but we forget that it is in the ebb and flow that we grow in relationship with Him. Maturity in the Spirit demands this space where the ebb and flow brings us ever closer to seeing God as he is and becoming who we are meant to be...built up into the full stature of Christ.
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