Tuesday, 22 July 2008

• When it rains....

  ...it pours!

  So yeah, we got a nice rainstorm last night.  Much needed.  Plants loved it, and it cooled things off.

  However, let me explore the double meaning behind that....

  Needless to say, July has been a rough month for us.  Granted, VBS was a highlight.   Personally though, we just go hit with, for lack of a better term, a load of cowpies from the sky.    The month started off with the AC, simple fix, no big deal.   Then the wife recently lost an old crown (before we were married) to a piece of candy (JuJu Fruit to be precise).   Then tonight, for whatever reason, I manage to give the wifes new camera a boo-boo of sorts (which is still under warranty, both manufacturers and extended, but still...).   Needless to say, the wife is totally unhappy with me now.

  Sometimes it feels like some flips up the plastic cover to the red "Sucky" button on your life's control panel and just hammers it hard.  Know the feeling?

  Yeesh.

  Granted,  yes, I've been through rougher patches in my life.  Too, I have no room to complain compared to what some people go through on a more regular basis.   It just seems that we manage to get on our feet again and start making general positive progress and then, "WHAM!"  A month like this happens.

  Then I run into Romans 8:28 (ESV):

  And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
  

  *knowiingly nods head*

  Instead of saying "Granted" (which I like to do a lot),   I will acknowledge the fact that life isn't always going to be peachy.  In this too God is still hammering out all my rough edges (which there are plenty of).  It's just that sometimes I wish a streak of positive things would "work together for good."  I feel guilty in saying that, but it would just be nice.

  Lord, help me to look past my circumstance, as bad as they seem to me at the moment.  I don't doubt that you have great things planned for my life.   I'll just have to submit through the journey to your perfect will, even if it means going through rough patches like this.   Help me to grow, help me to move on, give me joy in spite of my circumstances.  Amen. 

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