Tuesday, July 25, 2006
DEEP THOUGHTS.....
I know when the chips are down we each walk to our own song or not at all. I have watched many people in my life deal with health issues, life’s disappointments and downright disasters and when push comes to shove…… it’s what’s inside a person that will see him through.
I watched my mother over the years deal with hardships and hers was a quiet resolve that just hung on until things got better. My dad was one who flew into action when his world tumbled down and the mere fact of doing something about it was his salvation.
I suppose we gather a lot of information along the way that we fall back on when times get tough or things happen we have no control over. Those are the worst times for all of us. If we were being punished for something of our own making we could feel we deserved a backlash but it’s the things that happen out of the blue, totally unexpected, that get our attention.
Life ought to be fair but it isn’t. When you’re careful with things they shouldn’t get broken but they do. If you’re nice to people they ought to be nice back but some aren’t. The hard part of life is finding out that no matter how well you do things and how good you try to be…..you will have hard times. Sometimes a lot harder than you think you deserve.
Books have been written on why bad things happen to good people……and sometimes it seems good things happen to bad people more frequently. There is a lot of religion in the world and religion alone will never make anything better.
No matter how large the scale or how small and insignificant…. we are ultimately the one who decides the size of our world. In a million people we alone must stake our claim on the country we live in. It can be as good or as bad as we want to make it. We are bound with body, mind and spirit which are relatively free agents. It seems to be a good thing to like ourselves because we are the only person we can’t get away from.
When we are quiet, alone and the chips are down…..that person inside is all we have. In those quiet moments truth and reality come together in an indisputable litany for reason. We can kid everyone else…… but God makes it impossible to fool ourselves. There is always the small still voice of reason to make peace out of turmoil.
I welcome those times because I feel strength coming from a long ancestral line…..resolve coming from the God of my faith….peace and contentment for my soul. The quiet times alone will guide us right…..no matter what cross we may bear.
Until tomorrow,
Essentially Esther
I watched my mother over the years deal with hardships and hers was a quiet resolve that just hung on until things got better. My dad was one who flew into action when his world tumbled down and the mere fact of doing something about it was his salvation.
I suppose we gather a lot of information along the way that we fall back on when times get tough or things happen we have no control over. Those are the worst times for all of us. If we were being punished for something of our own making we could feel we deserved a backlash but it’s the things that happen out of the blue, totally unexpected, that get our attention.
Life ought to be fair but it isn’t. When you’re careful with things they shouldn’t get broken but they do. If you’re nice to people they ought to be nice back but some aren’t. The hard part of life is finding out that no matter how well you do things and how good you try to be…..you will have hard times. Sometimes a lot harder than you think you deserve.
Books have been written on why bad things happen to good people……and sometimes it seems good things happen to bad people more frequently. There is a lot of religion in the world and religion alone will never make anything better.
No matter how large the scale or how small and insignificant…. we are ultimately the one who decides the size of our world. In a million people we alone must stake our claim on the country we live in. It can be as good or as bad as we want to make it. We are bound with body, mind and spirit which are relatively free agents. It seems to be a good thing to like ourselves because we are the only person we can’t get away from.
When we are quiet, alone and the chips are down…..that person inside is all we have. In those quiet moments truth and reality come together in an indisputable litany for reason. We can kid everyone else…… but God makes it impossible to fool ourselves. There is always the small still voice of reason to make peace out of turmoil.
I welcome those times because I feel strength coming from a long ancestral line…..resolve coming from the God of my faith….peace and contentment for my soul. The quiet times alone will guide us right…..no matter what cross we may bear.
Until tomorrow,
Essentially Esther
