A Tough Week

This week ranks in the top 5 as being one of the worst weeks of my life.  I won’t talk about why, but, trust me.  It’s been tough. I also noticed that, leading up to this week, as if to make a double-negative impact, things that I found useful were breaking down.  My weed-whacker broke, my microwave oven went on the blink, my ipad bit the dust, along with a few other things that went haywire, and then worst got worst. A late night phone call and I am devastated. From phone call, waves of darkness rolled in and like aftershocks from an earthquake they continu to roll in.  Since I have committed to work this week, I have asked my coworker to watch me and double-check my work without telling him why. My wife has also kept watch on me as well because she knows that beneath my thick and sometimes stoic exterior I am a an emotional teddy ear.

As I go through this week, I have learned something about my faith, meaning, the Christian faith.  I already knew it, but, this week, I learned it in a way that I never knew it before and that is that Christian faith is like an undercurrent that pulls us in the direction that we should go, and I emphasize, “should”, because I am often tempted to go in another direction. I am often tempted to say things I shouldn’t say, to do things that I should not do and go places I should not go, and even if I manage to move in a direction that displeases God, there is a strong, spiritual undercurrent, and I feel it’s pull when it says, l “Don’t do that.  Here’s where you should go, here’s what you should say, and here’s what you should do.”

As I close on this thought, I would add that I am not talking about loving enemies even though that is included in the list of should’s.  I am talking about a Spirit that is always teaching, leading, encouraging and prodding us towards directions that please God and benefits man. That is the undercurrent that I feel in this darkness. My consolation is that this undercurrent pulls us to the light.

“Hark the herald angels sing

Jesus, the light of the world,

Glory to the new born King,

Jesus, the light of the world.