"I wanted to make something that says, no matter how bad you f*** up, or mistakes you've made during the year, your life, your eternity. You're always allowed to be better. You're always allowed to grow up. If you want."
How profound is that?! It struck me like a ton of bricks. And how perfectly timed? God can be a sneaky Man sometimes. Recently I have been thinking a lot about change and what I believe about it - especially with Easter having just passed and with several other major changes (some self chosen, others chosen for me) taking place in my life. I believe in Christ. And, because of Him, no hurt is permanent, no fall is forever, and no mess is to large for Him to heal, lift, or clean. There is nothing He can't fix. He has all power.
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| Christ Anoints the Blind Man by Walter Rane Photo via Google |
The really cool part is that He wants us to participate in the process. Instead of being passive bystanders as He does all the work, He invites us to work with Him to change our lives. The real work begins when we start working together. We can, with His help, overcome every obstacle that we encounter - regardless of who put it there. If we want to overcome, all we have to do is want it, commit to it, and then work for it as we listen to the Master, who knows how to get us there.
With the different challenges I have faced, am facing, and am sure I will yet face, I have felt very alone. Sometimes crushingly so. Sometimes frighteningly close to fatally so. However, this is a trick of the enemy of us all. Earlier in the same post, Glover touches on that point as well. He says that he, "got really lost... But I can't be lonely tho. Cause we're all here."
And there it is. We're all here. We're all human. We're all struggling through this mortal life. And, even when we feel most alone, we aren't because Christ is there, too. In every tough moment, through every tear of sadness, and during every instant that we take a struggling step forward, we have help from a divine source - a source that loves us completely. He loves our flaws, fixations, foibles, and follies as well as our strengths, abilities, and talents. He knows and loves us for who and what we were, are, and who, with His help, will be. Let us look for and then live up to and show that same love.
