July 9, 2019
Sometimes life doesn’t turn
out the way you expect, or the way you hoped, or the way you wanted, or the way
it seemed it should have been. And, when it doesn’t, there comes a time to let
go.
October 16, 2019
But, perhaps, letting go and
accepting isn’t that easy. Maybe it’s a series of steps, like grieving. Maybe
it begins with frustration and irritation and moves to just plan hopelessness.
Maybe the coming out is incremental, little by little. Maybe patience leads to
joy after all. Maybe.
February 28, 2020
Maybe like Naomi, we can
feel empty, wrung out, totally spent. As the snow swirls in a seemingly endless
winter, the clouds that bear down in the heavens bear down on our souls. Cold,
alone, empty.
Naomi felt empty; but we, as
outsiders looking in, know she wasn’t, not really. She felt alone, but truly
she wasn’t. As her hopelessness overwhelmed her, she pushed those who loved her
away. She felt targeted by God. Yet, that was far from the case. Sometimes, it
takes despair to get us where we need to be. Sometimes.
March 19, 2020
Sometimes despair is
overwhelming. It causes us to lie awake at night. We turn all the options over
in our heads. We say, yes, to this
and moments later, no. David spoke of
the unproductive watches of the night. Endless, foreboding, ever wakeful.
Despair. It consumes us. And, then comes morning.
March 29, 2020
Morning eventually comes. After
a sleepless night, we stumble to something or Someone to carry us through the
day. Things usually look differently in the morning. Even though exhausted, we
put one foot in front of the other and carry on. Stumble forward...into Jesus.
One day we wake up and find
it’s morning.
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