This is such an important point. I never really paid attention to this term “guile” until fairly recently. My husband pointed out that a certain someone “had no guile”… and I realized at that point what that truly meant. I think I was never taught in Sunday School about this and it certainly would have been helpful. I learned it the hard way, by experience; at one point I was working with a lot of guile to get my way, and ended up going through a lot of tribulation to have it finally burned out of me. I had no backbone at the time and was easily taken in by others who had guile–and the result was disastrous.

Nowadays it’s just the opposite–I can smell a rat! And I can also discern a man of integrity. It is thanks to the teaching at Plainfield, that I have developed a much greater spiritual sense of things. I’m so grateful for that!