Tearing Up

The funkiness is alleviating and my life is feeling a little more optimistic.  The optimisism comes from getting out of the fog and recognizing some direction.  I know that this all sounds vague but just know my stresses are no longer overwhelming my spirit.

I know as Christians we are to represent a God who provides blessings and  joy along with appointed challenges and trials.  In fact, I often advise you, my friends, to smile and laugh more.  We as Christians can be so drab and give a vibe of opression at times.  Yet, I also know some days we just want to cower and pull back.  Some think that to do this (cower and pull) that we are weak and not trusting God.  Well, maybe so, but I can't help but believe and picture my God running His fingers through my hair and thumbing the tears off my face.  He loves me.  He doesn't expect perfection.  He has given me grace to dust off my knees and stand up and go forward.  The day I do this He is still there to help progress in will...my life's journey.

Friends, if you get funky or see someone in a funk, don't judge.  Encourage and perhaps encourage firmly by God's word.  Be Jesus' hands today.  I will try.  It's in the helping of others that we can overcome our blues by just the mere distraction of doing something good for someone else.  Go ahead and run your fingers through their hair, and thumb away the tears.