First off, I apologize I've been missing in action lately. Things just keep piling up and no matter how much I'm trying to climb back up to the top, I can't. My writing time is always Sundays, but these days Sundays are spent just trying to catch up on sleep.
But don't you worry, I've had some fun during all the piling up. Zac and I were able to take Hunter to Paris for a week. It was a once in a life time trip. It was amazing spending the time with my two boys. I've never been much of a history person, but learning the history as we took our tours was beyond amazing. This world we live in has been through so much. Prosperity and then destruction and the cycle continues. In the end, rebuild always seems to take place.
I see this cycle in my regular life as well, minus the destruction. There are so many ebbs and flows of life. I'll have moments of things going really well and smooth, then the next thing I know I am drowning in commitments or trials and I don't feel I can keep my head about water. Sometime the highs stay for awhile and other times the lows last longer than the highs. I think you get the point.
And not only I'm I struggling, each day I hear about the hard things people around me are going through. My heart is breaking for them. So many people dealing with the negative consequences of other peoples choices. How is that even fair??
How do we continue when we are in the downs of life? How do we feel strength when we feel we don't have time to breathe? How do we not be angry with God, when what we are dealing with consequences from someone else's bad choice?
Lately I've been turning towards the song by Nik Day, Peace in Christ (this is someone's youtube video). I've been listening to it many times during the week to help center myself as I'm feeling overwhelmed, overworked, or feel like I'm in an unfair circumstance.
Today in church a sweet father and his daughter sang this song as the musical number. The daughter walked up to the front extremely reluctant to sing. The dad wrapped his arm around her and pulled her close. He then took his finger and pointed to each word in the song as they sang. Through out the song he would look at her, smile and encourage her to keep going. My heart was beyond touched and I began to bawl a few minutes into the song.
Isn't this what Christ does for us? Isn't this what he has been doing for me each and everyday?
He walks with me.
He pulls me in close when I'm feeling nervous and reluctant.
He patiently points to the directions for me to follow.
He constantly smiles at me and encourages me to go on.
He is our biggest support!!
As the world continues to move further and further away from God and Christ, I hope to move closer to Him. I know it's only with Him I can find peace during my downs of life. Only through Him can we find peace when we have to face the consequences of someone else's choices. Though it will never make sense in our mortal brains, Christ fills the gaps of everything we go through. He carries us through those downs and will only set us down when He knows we can stand on our own. He is everything we need to make it through this life!
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