Do you ever feel overwhelmed by how gross this life is? This world is? On many levels! Like the molds that so quickly start in your house if you turn your back too long all the way up to the warfare tactic of raping communities! The mold is gross; the crime against fellow humans is horrific… 
Been thinking about how filthy this life is… how it builds and sticks and weights you down…
It is messy and so easily can cloud your vision with all the dust and grime. A new struggle in our family this week brought home that feeling of filth and with it I showed such poor character that I was hit with disgust at how messy I can let my focus and my heart become. Ever find the worse you feel about your behavior the worse you behave??
It is hard to continue a misdirected focus in life when you are singing word so carefully written to glorify God… often in life I have been pulled out of a stupor by words and song… even when teaching your daughter a carol you can be redirected! I had never really noticed this verse in ‘It Came Upon A Midnight Clear’ before…
Whose forms are bending low,
Who toil along the climbing way
With painful steps and slow,
Look now! for glad and golden hours
Come swiftly on the wing:
O rest beside the weary road, and hear the angels sing.
A song on the radio as I headed home from the grocery store as well as a message that came out of a program my man and I watched tonight pushed the prick of his Spirit deeper and deeper till it hit its mark… Life is dirty but his blood washes clean… life is full of struggle but we are NOT meant to do it on our own … this world is dying but he is the healer… anger, frustration and the filth where rinsed away… It is so much easier to see now…
TTFN
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thanks for this, becky.
makes me think of “This is My Father’s World.” I have the tendency to sink into the slough of Despond, but that hymn is always sure to bear me up on eagles wings.