When it all goes wrong. When your Grandmother dies and you fall ill, when your kids are all in dark places, when it seems as though every friend has dropped you or money has been a major stress lately. These are the kind of things that happen in life. I am all for positive thinking and a positive mindset, but a positive mind cannot control life circumstances, faith cannot control life circumstances. The only way to go through it, is simply that, to go through it! So many times I have felt clouded, alone and lost. I still feel it sometimes as though life just doesn't make sense, but faith is not a magic potion. It is a hope that keeps you strong when you feel like giving up. It is so easy to look at successful people and think wow they must be so happy, or a wealthy person, but all of us are human at the end of the day. All of us go through pain and we all want to throw in the towel sometimes. I believe you can look at the sun and see the rays pour down upon you and feel the sense of warmth in the midst of darkness. I believe the sun goes down at night, but it always come back up in the morning, just like the seasons of life.
A positive mind is healthy and good to have, but it wont stop bad things from happening to you and in life will still have storms know matter how positively you may try to be, it wont change the sun from sitting. There is a time and a season for everything under heaven. Death and grief are so hard to understand and it may seem like how on earth can there be a season for death, which I agree I do not understand, but I believe that the mess you may be in or I may be in is fixable, it can be cleaned up! If you mess up your kitchen and leave it for days it will only get messier and messier, you must clean it up! This does not mean it will be super fun to clean (maybe with some music lol) or hard work, but once the mess is there, it must be dealt with, where you created it, or someone else, it must be cleaned, swept, disinfected and taken care of! So when something horrible happens, do not ignore it for days and let it sit there, but clean as best you can. It may take tears and fears to get there, but you will.
You see, I do not see a world that is full of peace and light, but I believe you can become it. The world is messy, life is messy and things get stressful, but sometimes it just takes grabbing that broom and sweeping it all up. That one, tiny step forward to shake things up a little bit. If nobody else does, then do it yourself. Sometimes you are preventing your own healing! Just like wrestlers train to fight in a match, you must train yourself to tackle the punches life throws at your face (intense, but true), and not let them keep you down, but to get up, sweat it out, shake off the dust and watch amazing, glorious fruit grow from the pain. I am not here saying that I have all of the answers or know it all. I am saying simply this; what I am learning myself and yearn to do contentiously in life because I have been knocked down and know what it is like to be. I am also aware that it is getting dark out there, but theirs always a light and theirs always a broom to begin sweeping the messes up with! Sometimes you have got too broom it all, to bloom it all, all messes are fixable including yours!