CLIFFS

Places, which you wish to leap off when you are feeling down? My definition. Not necessarily one everyone would agree with no doubt.

I think there are many cliffs one can encounter in life. Those are the places of thought were you reach and just can't must a feeling to do other than escape.

But by escape, I don't mean to some usual location. These are more the moods where you want to run away from life completely. Now tell me you've never felt that way?

Maybe you are in the minority and always feel great. Someone that never has a bad day in any way.

Which of course is what they claim. But I'm not sure I truly believe that myself. Just a question of how honest you want to be about your feelings.

For me there is no profit is pretending. And prefer to look upon the down moments with a certain acceptance that allows me to deal with them honestly.

Which includes leaning on God for help. That might sound trite, but honestly when one is down it is so easy to try and find some solution other than turning to the Lord.

I think that is because there are times when prayer just doesn't seem to always grace us with some immediate solution. At least that is a thought that often seems to drill our brains.

Be that as it may, the reality is if we are sad and feeling so unhappy, we crave a solution that we can truly enjoy in the present. One that actually replaces our sadness with an immediate form of joy.

So rather than lean on the Lord, we often search of other options. Escapes that we think will solve all our problems. Not just the one we were feeling grumpy about.

Such is the nature of life at times I guess. And the think is, even if we do react that way, it isn't as if God will strike us dead in the process.

However, if we have stumbled around and leaped of some cliff of wishful thinking without a decent solution, God will be there to help pick us up.

Oh he might have to dust us off a bit at times. And hopefully in the process we actually learn a lesson too.

That is the hard part. Making sure we allow ourselves a chance to see the kinds of cliffs that God will offer.

Which he will in a way that truly does bless instead of hurt.