She sees that all his needs are met, but she is powerless to make him grow. The same thing is true with spiritual development. It is God who gives the increase. Growth, whether physical or spiritual, is not so much like building a building, laying brick on brick. It rather like a tree that grows from a single root, and the life pulses through every branch and leaf.
Growth is a two-sided coin.
On the human side there is struggle. On the divine side there is help. The Rev. Victor H. Morgan is Rector of St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Blue Ridge.