There is an old saying, "the mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine." My Dad said it all the time, and when he said it, he would laugh. Ugh!
So mills grind grain. They break it down to make it useful.
According to the saying, the most powerful mills belong to God, to the gods or to the powers that be. They take their time in grinding us. But they grind well, and they grind fine. They eventually break us down so that we "get it."
This is another approach to the concept of Karma. All in good time. What goes around comes around.
So I thought of this saying after visiting my daughter and her family in Chicago. Now with a couple of children, the mills of the Gods are catching up with my daughter. Life has a way of breaking us down and helping us realize that maybe our parents were not as dumb as we thought.
I remember a family at church that left us in a very hateful, scathing manner. We were not promoting the values that they thought we should. Some years later, their children grew up and chose values that they did not agree with. And the pain comes home. The mills of the gods break us down slowly.
The moral of this story is that we need to show as much grace as we can to everyone. The mills just may be working on us.
The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine.
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