Facing Uneasiness

In his devotion, "Lent for Everyone," N. T. Wright defines biblical faith as "faith in a God whom we believe at one level to be all-seeing, never-sleeping, omnipresent, and omnicompetent – but who, at another level, seems, from the perspective of our muddled and messy lives, to have gone to sleep on the job."

If you are facing some uneasiness that is frightening and worrying at the same time, why not do what Christ's disciples did years ago. When a big windstorm blew up on the lake they were on, they roused Jesus from his sleep. "'Teacher!' they said to him, 'We're going down! Don't you care?'" At that Mark says Jesus got up and told the wind to switch off (Mark 4). Perhaps he's ready to tell your disturbance the same thing.

I Love It

In Icona Pop’s song “I Love It,” Aino Jawo and Caroline Hjelt celebrate the end of a frustrating relationship. Whoever they were with was at a completely different place in life. In the song they sing, You're on a different road. I’m in the milky way. You want me down on earth, but I am up in space. Whenever that occurs in any relationship, the result is always friction. Aino and Caroline are so annoyed they say, We gotta kill this switch. 
But is there another way?

Whenever you get frustrated with someone you know or work with or even love, take a deep breath, grab a little time for yourself, and make sure you’re being as patient as you can before you decide to kill the switch. It’s always better to bear some grief from someone you know than shut them out of your life forever. Remember the Proverb: A person’s wisdom yields patience; it is to one’s glory to overlook an offense.