God is Good
It rains outside my window now and the weather is expected to stay this way for a while. Some plants will thrive, others will wash away. I don't understand why things happen in such seeming incongruence, but I agree with what my mother has said during the darkest valleys of my life,"God is good all the time. All the time, God is good." Hard things have happened to my mother. She knows what she's talking about.
This morning my husband voiced his disappointment that on this day, a day he took off work to begin making a road at our farm...well, you know...it rains. And I don't fault him his complaint. We're human. We get disappointed.
But everything in this life is a matter of perspective, something we gain more of with each rainy, cloudy, hot, humid or perfectly sunshiny day. Our plans happen -- or they don't.
Here's a little perspective for you. I once visited a home, ten minutes from where I live, which had a non-working toilet on top of a hole in a broken down front porch. The people who lived there did their business into this thing and the poo or pee dropped through and onto the ground below. I saw this because I was taking a crack addict prostitute mother of a four year old back to her home after she had stayed at my house for a couple of days in between jail stints. She wanted to return there because this was all she'd ever known. She ended up strung out and back in jail within weeks.
We've all seen some things in this world. The next time the toast burns or someone cuts in front of us in traffic, or it rains, maybe it's time to pause and give some of the things we've seen some thought.
May each situation you face today be viewed through the lens of a thankful heart.
This morning my husband voiced his disappointment that on this day, a day he took off work to begin making a road at our farm...well, you know...it rains. And I don't fault him his complaint. We're human. We get disappointed.
But everything in this life is a matter of perspective, something we gain more of with each rainy, cloudy, hot, humid or perfectly sunshiny day. Our plans happen -- or they don't.
Here's a little perspective for you. I once visited a home, ten minutes from where I live, which had a non-working toilet on top of a hole in a broken down front porch. The people who lived there did their business into this thing and the poo or pee dropped through and onto the ground below. I saw this because I was taking a crack addict prostitute mother of a four year old back to her home after she had stayed at my house for a couple of days in between jail stints. She wanted to return there because this was all she'd ever known. She ended up strung out and back in jail within weeks.
We've all seen some things in this world. The next time the toast burns or someone cuts in front of us in traffic, or it rains, maybe it's time to pause and give some of the things we've seen some thought.
May each situation you face today be viewed through the lens of a thankful heart.
