DOOMSDAY

There is the doomsday one can feel looming in the Book of Revelations. One that I have no desire to experience that event.

Outside of that event, however, there are the usual tribulations of life that have their one form of doomsday. And there is no escape from them.

Not sure even if we wanted to that would happen. Because it is part of the learning experience for life.

What comes is the process of challenge, the cause of so many choices we make that often intrude upon life in so many ways. None of us gets excited about those options.

Still the issue is not to avoid them, but cope with them. To face the challenges with faith and trust to God for deliverance.

I don't think any of us enjoys such situations. They do bear down upon the soul with so many forms of stress.

And that never makes for a good day. But again this is the challenge of life that we all must face.

I sit at times when the little doomsdays come and wonder, what happened? You know I didn't do anything particular to deserve this anxiety. Still, it came just the same.

And normally nothing ever happens to give me an explanation for why this time or day brought me such grief. I just relax when it is over.

There are many reasons though. Some easier to understand than others. Just normally doesn't come at the time.

The Lord will give us clarity in due season even if to just make us aware life is never a free ride. That isn't quite the lesson we crave though.

Still, one does need to move ahead. And even if it is to a place where we find out that we can expect this kind of challenge on other occasions.

Some times that brings joy, others sadness, but it always will leave us with wondering. Which is part of life.

With faith there is no crossroads reached where heaven replaces the present. Where we find ourselves free of trial and test.

A nice dream that never touches reality. And how many chase that dream. So much fun they have when they discover it vanishes at the next challenge of a doomsday unexpected, but there just the same.