grasp
We
live in a fairy world where we think everything should come easily, where
things stay calm, no ripples on the water, no contest we can't win, nothing we
can put our hand to that doesn't turn out just right. But this is not the
truth of where we stand. This world is hard. Relationships are
messy. People grow old and weary or sick. It infects each one of
us. Nothing we do can protect us from the wear of this earth.
Yet
there is such beauty in this place; love and laughter, kindness and
hope, joy and excitement. But I cannot have one without
the other and so I dance between the two. Sometimes the steps falling
into place, one emotion closely behind the other. Other times the separation of
the two so vast I cannot see their connection. It's delightful and ugly in the
same instance. I carry the promise of new life in a body that daily is
wearing down, the beauty of God working through the brokenness of me.
All of this is for the good. He
is beautifully confusing yet other times completely within my grasp. A
puzzle that unfolds and becomes clearer the deeper I trust, the longer I hold
on, as I march through the mountains and valleys. He is a God who is actively
transforming, reshaping, redeeming, refreshing, restoring.
Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides.
You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors.
So don’t try to get out of anything prematurely.
Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed,
not deficient in any way.
James 1:2-4
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