Bono On Spiritual Growth

Your nature is a hard thing to change; it takes time.  One of the extraordinary transferences that happen in your spiritual life is not that your character flaws go away but they start to work for you.    A negative becomes a positive: you've a big mouth: you end up a singer.  You're insecure: you end up a performer who needs applause.  I have heard of people having life-changing miraculous turn arounds, people set free from addiction after a single prayer, relationships saved where both parties 'let go and let God'.  But it was not like that for me.  For all that 'I was lost, I am found', it is probably more accurate to say, 'I was really lost, I'm a little less so at the moment.'  And then a little less and a little less again.  That to me is the spiritual life. The slow reworking and rebooting of a computer at regular intervals, reading the small print of the service manual.  It has slowly rebuilt me in a better image.  It has taken years, though, and it is not over yet.   - -Bono, u2 by u2