When we are often placed in a difficult situation and alone with our own thoughts, things often become clear. What we think we know . . . we don't. What we think we understand . . . is left a mystery to us. I do not pretend to understand how the human mind works or why people do the things that they do, but I've discovered that people don't often know themselves. I would not say that every person has a hidden agenda, but I will say that some do.
Within the last few weeks I've been pondering, praying, and seeking answers to so many things. For those of you who know Christ . . . we understand that all answers that we seek . . . He gives to us. He won't always paint a pretty picture for you, but he gives to you truth, which at some point or another in your life is less than a pretty picture on an expensive canvas.
But at the same time, I've also discovered that people are not clueless of every situation facing them. Deep inside we know the answers to most questions. We deal in the one thing that keeps us going and that is in the hope of everything that we face. For everyone that has a hope . . .always realize that your hopes are never dumb, naive, or wasteful. If that were the case, our hope that Christ will return would be unfounded. Hope liberates you, it consoles you, and most of all it makes you human and capable to enjoy what life has to offer you.
Allan K. Chalmers once said that "The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." No one is ever happy doing nothing. We can't achieve doing nothing. To not love is being disconnected from the world, and if we loose hope, we go about life without any expectations; never anticipating any beauty that life has to offer us. I don't know about you, but I want to live my life always hoping, always loving, always forgiving, and always knowing that there is beauty in what I feel, do, and know.
So in my search for some answers during my time of agony (smile) I have discovered that I do not live behind a mask. I HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE. I'm not afraid to hope, I am not afraid to love, and I am free to be me. I am okay, life is so wonderful and I will survive in knowing the God's love is more powerful than any love that I have been searching for. Love is not an exchange. It's an acceptance. There is never a hidden agenda to it. It's pure and most of all it starts first inside of ones self.
God Bless
Vee
Vee
