If we look at the world we live in, we see devastation all around. It takes on many different faces, like stress, grief, poverty, fear (of the known and the unknown). And there is no-one that is left untouched.
People are more on the move than they have ever been, more unsettled, more dissatisfied and more unhappy than they have ever been in any other age.
In our one daughters class, there are already four kiddies that have left with their families ‘for a brighter future’. And there is at least one or two from each of the other three classes. These moves are certainly not all due to negative emotion, Because sometime one is given a great opportunity. But it does say something. Something big!
It says something about our attitude and how we always try to change things, to suit our own way, rather than seek to follow God’s way.
I don’t think that there is one person on this planet, that has not been touched by grief or fear or disappointment.
It’s what we do with this grief when comes across our path. We can choose to allow it overwhelm us, consume and shape our whole life. Or we can look up and see the light, Gods light, and choose to move forward towards God and His love.
There certainly is a season for mourning over loved ones, but neither them nor God wants us to be stuck in that place, unable to see or experience any joy in life.
God’s desire is for us to live this life, the life that He has given us, to the fullest! To follow Him is His wonderful plan for us, which will not exclude grief and disappointment and struggles but He will walk with us through it on on to live in brighter days again.
I came across this incredibly inspiring YouTube clip about Shaun Tomson and how he overcame the great grief that he faced in His life.
Watch it and be encouraged.
Shaun Tomson: World Champion Surfer and Jewish Dad
After he tragically lost his son at age 15, record-breaking surfer Shaun Tomson found a new calling.
Posted by Jewish Food on Wednesday, 2 May 2018
Here is another exhurb from the encouraging book ‘Beyond Our Selves’ by Catherine Marshall
Surely we have misunderstood Christianity if we think if we think God wants us to obey him reluctantly – resisting, bucking, hating every strep of the way. In fact the New Testiment tells us that this reluctant obedience growing out of fear of punishment was the old way, the Old Covenant. Jesus came to show us a new way buy which God promises to work in us ‘both to will and to do do His good pleasure.’ This means that God will bring about such a change in us that His plans and desires for us will be our delight.