"As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be"
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Williamson’s genius here is the way she smuggles a political temperament into devotional language. “Purer channels for God’s light” sounds like private spirituality, but it’s really a prescription for posture: stop treating the self as a clogged pipe of fear, grievance, and cynicism, and start acting as if you’re meant to transmit something cleaner. The payoff is deliberately sensory. She doesn’t promise virtue or salvation; she promises an “appetite” for “sweetness” - desire, taste, pleasure. Spiritual growth, in her framing, isn’t a hair shirt. It’s a reorientation of craving away from drama and toward possibility.
The phrase “miracle worker” is the clever pivot. A miracle isn’t just an anomaly; it’s a refusal to accept the given as final. That’s why she draws a hard line between “fighting the world that is” and “creating the world that could be.” On the surface it’s anti-combat, but the subtext is tactical: outrage can become an identity that keeps you emotionally busy while leaving reality intact. She’s wary of activism-as-resentment, the kind that feeds on enemies and ends up mirroring them.
Context matters. Williamson’s work rises out of late-20th-century New Age spirituality and its self-help-adjacent optimism, later colliding with American politics where “love” talk gets dismissed as soft. This quote anticipates that critique by making love operational: not a mood, but a method for imagination, endurance, and constructive action. It dares you to believe that hope is not naive - it’s a discipline.
The phrase “miracle worker” is the clever pivot. A miracle isn’t just an anomaly; it’s a refusal to accept the given as final. That’s why she draws a hard line between “fighting the world that is” and “creating the world that could be.” On the surface it’s anti-combat, but the subtext is tactical: outrage can become an identity that keeps you emotionally busy while leaving reality intact. She’s wary of activism-as-resentment, the kind that feeds on enemies and ends up mirroring them.
Context matters. Williamson’s work rises out of late-20th-century New Age spirituality and its self-help-adjacent optimism, later colliding with American politics where “love” talk gets dismissed as soft. This quote anticipates that critique by making love operational: not a mood, but a method for imagination, endurance, and constructive action. It dares you to believe that hope is not naive - it’s a discipline.
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