As I mentioned earlier, I am doing the "Bible In 90 Days" at my church. I've passed the halfway mark, and I am pleased to report that I am right on track. Sometimes I don't read my full 12 pages, but I make up for it the next day.
The readings are getting easier to physically read, but the entire Bible is hard reading. At our weekly meeting this week, I had my "aha!" moment.
I'm sure many of you know that life is stressful right now for Brian and I. Brian works all the time (much to his dismay) and has school, which leaves him for very little Kaylynn time. I work all day, get more time with Kaylynn than Brian, but still not as much as I want. I am in charge of all "household" matters, which is hard when all you want to do is hang out with your sweet girl. The house won't clean itself...and I'm sure if you saw mine, you'd say "Yeah, and you don't clean it either!" I've been waiting for life to get "normal". You know, when you just live and enjoy life.
The beginning of the book of Ecclesiastes starts off by saying that everything is "meaningless." Kinda depressing, right? But not really! What the video talked about yesterday was that we assume normal life is a monorail, going smoothly in one direction, not diverting one way or other other. But in reality, life is a roller coaster. It has ups, it has downs, and that is the TRUE normal! Life isn't supposed to be easy. Ecclesiastes teaches us that we aren't to seek out our own life fulfillment, but celebrate the joys that God gives us, as well as the adversity, because if we didn't have adversity, we wouldn't see the joys as joyful.
I think this particular book answers that question "Why do bad things happen to good people?" They aren't necessarily "bad things", though our human heads understand them as bad things. It's really just a downward part of a roller coaster and we have to work hard to overcome the adversity so we can enjoy the next joyful part of our human lives.
This helps me keep on. Knowing that there will be joys amongst adversity. That life will not be easy, and that's NORMAL! Kaylynn is definitely a joy to our life, even though we (ok, Brian) overcame huge adversity when she was being born (she wasn't born at an ideal time for him). But the best news is that we got through and celebrated the best joy we've experienced!
Aha! :)
1 comment:
Very true! I enjoyed reading your learnings and definitely agree. And I thought life would be so "easy" when I was at home with Katelyn all day...as in get everything I wanted to accomplish done. I might not have a clean house either, but I'm just grateful that I get to spend so much time with her. I hope that time will come soon for you too!
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