Uncomplicating things
Sometimes life throws curveballs you could never have guessed were coming.
I’ve been thinking about something I heard recently, on the radio. A soldier was being interviewed on all things considered or some program like that, and mentioned how now that he’s home, the stresses we encounter on a daily basis just aren’t important to him anymore. When something happens, he asks himself “am I being shot at? Is this life and death? Is my family happy and healthy?”
So the past few days i’ve remembered that. I’ve had enough real stress in my life to know better than to let fake stress get in my way. I understand life and death. And 99.9 percent of the time, the situation doesn’t fall in that category.
So the crazy curveball comes… Like those bugbites Ella got last week. That was, and has proven still to be a curveball of unimaginable proportions. And yet it’s not life and death. We can handle this.
God’s grace is available to us on every level and every scale. There is no moment that He withdraws it, because the moment isn’t worthy or because we are unworthy.
I don’t know the state of that soldiers soul – the one interviewed. I know he had gained and shared wisdom. I have a valuable understanding of Gods wisdom that layers over the life lessons we learn ourselves or from others.
That’s how you handle the crazy pitches.
I do wish I knew one thing though…why did God create insects? I just don’t see the point in them.