Life always interrupts when it can, does it not? And that is a good thing to let happen. It is only by crossing the crags in the rocks and stepping on a few sharp pebbles or toe tripping across the hot sands that we get to see what the nice ocean looks like up close. I love to dip my feet into the water and run above the waves as if challenging them to catch me. Breathtaking fun!
That said, I have learned (albeit stubbornly) to respect life's challenges, even though they do not seem as pleasant as dancing in water or running from waves. Life challenges us to be faster, stronger, better and more alert to who we are and what we are capable of. They make us more alert to our surroundings. Most importantly, they make us aware of who God is, and what power God holds.
I find it exhilarating to think of all the tiny details that God has to keep up with. I could never do it. Can you imagine how God knows how many pebbles of sand are on that beach, how many pebbles of sand it will take for that water to stay put, or how much life is in that rocky tidepool, or species of life in the ocean or clouds in the sky, even the hairs on everyone's head?
I love to rest between challenges and view the ocean of life too, the good things, peace, joy and love, and good food and fellowship. I love that more than the taxing rough crags of the world. Who doesn't, after all?
Without the challenges, however, we would never know what joy is. We could never experience that sigh of relief or, without risk, that feeling of rejuvenation.
In Science Fiction the word Rejuve is used a lot. Rejuvination is a means toward a goal to extend life, even to the point of reaching immortality. What a nice thought to live a long healthy life, feeling young and full of joy.
Every day i struggle with faith, every other day I pray and feel stupid for sturggling with faith. :-)
There are days i do not feel young. Days i wish the pain would end quick, so i can stop suffering. Days when I'm angry, sad and want to vent just to vent. Yet past those days, after the sun comes out and God shows me the beauty of what he's created and his love has been felt, well...I go back to wanting to feel alive and full of joy. I then despise the days that i did vent. Why? Because, by not focusing on what the world isnt, or the pain that is in it, but rather for what it is, and the God who made it so, God's manifesto of beauty and grace makes the pain seem moot, and my view of life downright stupid.
That is why I am not here to share about my or someone else's troubles, or how to face challenges. My view is simply that, my view of life with all of its imperfections and perfections, and being that i am an imperfect species myself, what i view has no merit.
No, what i like to focus on is the beauty I find along the way after I get past those sharp rocks and hot sands. Now, that does have merit, because i have nothing to do with that but to look at it and feel it. The result is the joy that i find in the view, and hopefully you will find that joy too.
When God's creation lets him be the focus instead of trying to be the gods, our view of the world takes on a new perspective. Then we reach rejuve stage. The trees clap for him, the birds sing, and flowers shake off their caps and bloom. We can feel we can accomplish anything, feel high, young, free and floating above in our own utopia. We can do our own hippie dance at the edge of the ocean waters.
God Bless!
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