Chene Heady

“But what David has learned is not so much his own nature—which he frequently calls a “mystery” in the Psalms—as the nature of God. He does not offer a detailed résumé-style argument as to how the skills of his previous position as a shepherd are applicable to his desired position as a warrior. He says that over the course of his life he has learned something about the character of God and thus something about the nature of the universe in which he lives. Through hard experience, David has come to realize that God can be trusted. David can throw himself into a series of impossibly difficult situations not because he has a tremendous amount of self-confidence but because he realizes the outcome is out of his hands and is, in fact, in better hands than his own. He is an analyst not of his own character but of God’s.”
― Chene Heady, Numbering My Days: How the Liturgical Calendar Rearranged My Life