I took the long weekend from writing to visit with my two sisters at the beach. Both have experienced the same heartbreak within six months of each other, the death of their husbands.
Sunshine, salt air, the sound of waves, and sister time will cure almost anything that ails you. God’s best medicine requires you to trust His plan even when it makes no sense. He has immeasurably more for us than we can ask or imagine.
Author C.S. Lewis, who wrote the Narnia series, puts it this way. “It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”
We will stay in the slums of life, seeking out anything but God to find happiness and relief from the pain of life. He offers unbridled joy, like the children playing on the beach. He knocks at the door of our hearts with the offer of infinite joy. It is His power that will do the work. Open the door to your heart and let Him in. He is able to do more than we can ever ask or imagine!
IT'S A HARnDen LIFE... 