UPS AND DOWNS

Ah the little detours from the expected. Yep it really is so much fun. You start out thinking that you are heading in one direction, mainly up and then it takes an unexpected change in the worst way imaginable.

But the real part is how it rips at your heart. One was expected heaven and got hell. Not quite the results that make us smile.

That is the time when we can stumble most. It is amazing how easy depression can cripple. Just can completely leave a person unable to care about anything.

Now in reality while things change from generation to generation in terms or our frame of reference. But we know that feelings are forever.

They are timeless and common to every heart. So you don't have to be perfect or in paradise to scream or laugh.

And we can adjust reality to the idea that if we have more or make life easier this will somehow make things perfect. It doesn't work that way.

Instead we must face the challenges at they come. We must endure and not give up even when the unexpected seems ready to crush us.

That never improves the problem. Nor will it ever. Instead we have the choice. To live and savor what we have or to hate it.

And God will enable us to cope if we will reach out to him. Not everyone will do this. In fact most will not do it at all.

So we must venture forth as usual by faith. Hardly anything new, just not always the path that seems the most encouraging.

Still those who follow an easy path never find it really benefits them in the long run. That sounds good at the time, but it will always end up less than our expectations.

Because we have followed it by our will. And thus we think we can control it. But we never can.

Following God's path always takes away that element. We learn we are not in charge and thus we listen to him instead of our will.

Which doesn't always make the path perfect. It can be harsh and even filled with problems, but the end is far more blessed than others.

To that end we find the way we choose more one without all the answers. But then the Lord will whisper what we need to know.