Everyone's life has ups and downs. Mine was 'up' for many years - at least on the outside - while it was 'down' on the inside. Then - over the course of a few years the outside caught up with the inside and everything seemed 'down' - mostly me - and my relationship with God. I wanted to have a relationship with him. I knew in my heart and my head that he was real - but he felt distant. I know it's cliche, but it wasn't him that had moved - it was me. I have moved farther and farther from him - to the point that, although I was still going to church (partly out of a sense of obligation and partly out of a hope that someone, somewhere, would say something that would yank me out of my doldrums) I would just sit there - not sing - not stand - just barely be present - mostly wishing I could play a game on my phone or read the news without anyone thinking critical thoughts of me.
But things are different now. It took a major event - some might call it a tragedy - others a wake-up call - others God's discipline - in order for me to wake up and smell the blessings. I'm off to my men's group at church later tonight to see if I can help other guys get out of the 'down' and back to the 'up.'
I can look out the window of the house with which God has blessed me, and see the mountains that God has created - while my amazing and godly wife is downstairs.
I'll be writing her a song for her birthday here soon. It's going to include the phrase "Life is Good" - partly because she loves those clothes - and that cute orange hat with the flower on it that she wears when she needs to go somewhere in the wee hours of the morning - and partly because it is. Life. Is. Good.
Now - to find a scripture that backs up the sentiment that no matter how much cra! that comes into our lives, life is good.
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