Sometimes, life doesn’t exactly go the way you planned or the way you would have liked. Sometimes, it’s downright frustrating, and other times, it hurts so much you wonder if the pain will ever go away. Trauma comes and goes, seasons fade and are rebirthed, and our lives move steadily forward, with or without our consent.
I’m more familiar with pain than I like to admit. And I, like a lot of people, am good at putting on a ‘happy face,’ soldiering on and trying to ignore the hurt. We’re absolute experts at it, despite attempts to destigmatize feeling the hard feelings in recent years.
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What’s life’s greatest calling? Depending on who you ask this question, you could get some different answers. Some people might say getting to the top of the social ladder. Others might say being happy. Still others would probably make some reference to the famous A.W. Tozer quote, “Life’s chief aim is to know God and enjoy Him forever.”
Personally, I think it’s something else, more related to the Tozer quote but something still more than even that - like knowing God and enjoying Him forever is only one part of the whole picture. It’s smoky where I live. The sun is a hazy red that doesn’t quite reach the ground, and a yellowish smog is hanging over everything. When I walk out the door, it smells like a distant campfire.
Living in a part of the country where we don’t usually have issues with wildfires, this is a new experience to drive to work through a yellow haze. The crazy thing is that the fires are nowhere near my home. They are well more than 100 miles away in another country and in no danger of impacting my home or community. |
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