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title: 'Macartney on the Web of Life'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2024-10-07
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2024-macartney-on-the-web-of-life
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# Macartney on the Web of Life

“The misfortunes and adversities of life, so called, assume a different color when we look at them through this glass. It is sad to hear people trying to live over their lives again and saying to themselves: ‘If I had chosen a different profession,’ ‘If I had taken a different turning of the road,’ ‘If I had married another person.’ All of this is weak and unchristian. The web of destiny we have woven, in a sense, with our hands, and yet God has had his part in it. It is God’s part in, and not ours, that gives us faith and hope.” — [**Clarence E**.**N. Macartney**](/authors/charles-edward-noble-macartney), *Sermon on Predestination* (1930)