I am grateful for the difficult things I've been through in life because they are a constant reminder of the greatest lesson I ever learned. That lesson being that no matter where we are on life's journey, it's all about our relationship with God...our connectedness with Him...our daily choice to let go of earthly distractions and to listen to His voice in our lives. If you know Him personally, you know that He is good, so undeniably good...and this world can be so bad and so temporary. Life can be so bittersweet. The sweet that comes in precious memories made and thought back on through our days and the bitter that comes with the hard to bare experiences of life that leave us with scars.
One of my closest friends became a widow at the age of 36 and strangely we found ourselves, in the midst of our very different circumstances, finding our best descriptor for life was the word weird. Not much beauty or explanation in such a word as weird but it really seemed to fit during a time when left with such huge things to wrap our minds around. Time is weird...all the unexpected things that go on in life...just super weird. But one thing is constant and that is our God who is not confined to these weird things that send us reeling. He is our constant, our lighthouse, our anchor that keeps us where we should be. Such peace in knowing that time and change and earthly things don't change Him or our eternal home...praise be to God!
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