Sometimes I live with the realization that God is clearly present and strong. Sometimes I don't. What do I on those days when I don't feel anything - is crucial. tantamount. important. enormously significant. come on... what other words are out there waiting to be used? It's so important that I continue to do just what I've always been doing - even though I feel dumb and am completely reluctant to answer anyone's questions about what I believe or think or feel. Sometimes I forget that what I'm doing isn't the main thing. I been really frustrated in a few instances recently. People weren't doing what I expected them to do. So I was snappy in one case(music), and in the other (basketball) I... hit the fence and said a few Christian style bad words. Flip. Heck. You know. As in, "what the flippin' heck." And then of course said something sassy. But then I realized, as I caught my breath, that the point of me playing sports wasn't to score points, but to be with people and to love them. So this guy that fouled me and I freaked out... well, who wins then? I'm an idiot. He feels stupid. My team got the ball back, but so what. Is the game happy? Games don't exist. We do. Love. Love. Love. Love. It changes the way I look at everything. It changes what I pursue, how I treat the things I'm scared of, people I'm mad at, situations I'm frustrated about... the way I spend my time. The other day I got really scared about the future. It was one of those days when the realization of Him was non-existent. I decided to stop thinking (if that's possible). All my brain wanted to do was worry and rehearse all the terrible possibilities based on the emptiness in those places where God has not yet come through. Hope's a killer sometimes. Love also changes me when I realize that this is God's disposition (is that the right word) toward me. He loves me. What can you do, but wait with smile when those are the facts? Well, I try.
I didn't want to be on facebook
I didn't want to be on facebook. And when I did, I made all my settings super private. And then I said "NO" to lots of people who wanted to "friend" me. And then when I did add people, I ERASED THEM. Not all, just some. I wanted facebook to be just for me and my family. Know why? One reason is, I want to know you in real life. I don't want your facebook life. And you don't want mine either. I tend to post super cute things that my kids say. Oh and they are brilliant. You do need to hear those things. ( I actually post those things so that when I make our yearly photo album I'll have cute things close at hand to make the book all the more memorable to us). But I would never post the fact that I just got told I was a dumb mom and that my son hates this family and never wants to be here again, my precious son who has autism and we are just learning how to work with him and we fail multiple times daily. And when we have no money, I'm not go...
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To be a witness
does not consist
in engaging in propaganda,
nor even in stirring people up,
but in being a living mystery.
It means to live
in such a way
that one’s life
would not make sense
if God did not exist.
~Emmanuel CĂ©lestin Cardinal Suhard (April 5, 1874—May 30, 1949)
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Those who believe they believe in God,
but without passion in the heart,
without anguish of mind,
without uncertainty,
without doubt,
and even at times without despair,
believe only in the idea of God,
and not in God himself.
~Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
Take care,
~JasonG