I have seen many
of the events of life and I have studied how and why things are the way they
are. I have concluded that much of this
life is beyond my control and my understanding.
I try to give reasons to the things that happen but there seems to be no
adequate rationale. I try to understand
but it continues to be a mystery. I am
constantly being confronted with experiences that are confusing and over which
I have no control:
- The times when we celebrate birth and then we experience death,
- the times when we are active and thrilled to participate in life and then the times when we are quiet and withdrawn,
- the times when our spirits suffer and then when we experience healing,
- the times when we laugh heartily and the times when we weep profoundly,
- the serious times and the frivolous times,
- the times we remember and the times we forget,
- times when we feel successful and those times we feel that we have failed,
- times when we persevere and “hang in there” and times when we succumb and abdicate,
- times when we overtly express our love and times when we love but don’t show it,
- times when our hearts are filled with tears of grief and times when our grief is silent and too tired to give expression,
- times when we are the one who gives support and times when we are in desperate need of someone to hold and support us,
- times when we want to be with others and times when solitude is an oasis.
So what am I to
do? How am I to respond when I am in the
middle of these confusing and mysterious times?
What is my purpose? How do I live
through these mysterious and difficult events in my life?
“The end of the matter is
this: love God. Trust the ways of
God. For God knows the plight of man;
those things that we are able to see and have some understanding, and those
things that are mysterious and hidden from sight.”
~Scripture Interpretation by my friend, Jim Powell
Yes!
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