There comes such a day in each of our
lives when everything
gets difficult and you feel like you
are in so deep a hole you
can’t see daylight. Your world
shrinks down to no further than
arm’s length around you.
My grandmother used to describe those
desperately lonely or
troubled times as having her lip in her
lap or her nose on her
naval. Those mental images were her way
of using humor to
lessen her depression until she could
get her Christian faith
jump-started and get back on track.
That shrunken world view of all
possible bad outcomes sometimes
left her temporarily too paralyzed to
see beyond her problems to
remember the myriad of blessings
available to her, even on her
worst day. Eventually she would begin
to count her blessings,
look up to remember she was not alone
and she could again
stand strong.
Okay, we may not have health, a
houseful of loved ones and
friends or an expensive car or
important job by this world’s
standards, but start with basics: fresh
air, sunshine, rainbows
behind each raincloud, a Bible full of
promises from our Holy,
living God who loves us even when we
whine about how cruel
this world is to us. Remember who we’re
talking to about our
concerns—He is the one wearing that
crown of thorns! He’s
been there, done that and yet he loves
us, promises to go with
us through the darkest days all the way
to “happily ever after”.
And that’s no fairy tale.
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