Spotify just let me know that this was my most played song last year.
Not surprised at all.
Not surprised at all.
And I could make a good case for it becoming this year's too.
Have I mentioned that life is hard?
At the fireside I went to last night one of the speakers said something like this:
We are trained to think that all questions should have answers,
that there should always be a happy ending.
But the truth is, mortality is messy- and life is hard,
and for some complicated issues,
there are no "clean" answers.
That resonated with me.
My life is messy.
But I am learning to embrace the mess and in the process, God is embracing me.
Mostly, I am learning how to trust Him more.
God is HUGE about trusting Him.
Personally, I wouldn't be able to believe in a God that I understood completely
and all of His ways made sense to me.
That would put Him on my level. How then is He God?
I believe in a God who has all the answers but only gives me some of them right now.
Because with me, He is trying to create someone who leaves this earth better than when I came.
And most importantly, He is trying to create someone who trusts Him and His son.
Completely.
100%.
That just doesn't come without a whole bunch of awesome, terrible, happy, painful, joyful, and spiritually stretching experiences.
And stretching is scary.
Thus my most played Spotify song:
When it gets hard, I get a little braver now, I get a little stronger now.
And when it gets dark, I get a little brighter now, I get a little wiser now...
Yep, braver, stronger, brighter, and wiser.
I'll take all of those.
Here's to a braver, stronger, brighter and wiser 2018.
Have I mentioned that life is hard?
At the fireside I went to last night one of the speakers said something like this:
We are trained to think that all questions should have answers,
that there should always be a happy ending.
But the truth is, mortality is messy- and life is hard,
and for some complicated issues,
there are no "clean" answers.
That resonated with me.
My life is messy.
But I am learning to embrace the mess and in the process, God is embracing me.
Mostly, I am learning how to trust Him more.
God is HUGE about trusting Him.
Personally, I wouldn't be able to believe in a God that I understood completely
and all of His ways made sense to me.
That would put Him on my level. How then is He God?
I believe in a God who has all the answers but only gives me some of them right now.
Because with me, He is trying to create someone who leaves this earth better than when I came.
And most importantly, He is trying to create someone who trusts Him and His son.
Completely.
100%.
That just doesn't come without a whole bunch of awesome, terrible, happy, painful, joyful, and spiritually stretching experiences.
And stretching is scary.
Thus my most played Spotify song:
When it gets hard, I get a little braver now, I get a little stronger now.
And when it gets dark, I get a little brighter now, I get a little wiser now...
Yep, braver, stronger, brighter, and wiser.
I'll take all of those.
Here's to a braver, stronger, brighter and wiser 2018.
