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.

Worth More Than Gold

I pulled up a podcast I really love called "Funky House London." A couple of songs later I was listening to Britt Nicole's song "Gold." In the song she says she's singing for girls and boys all over the world. She was singing for me; telling me to not let anyone convince me I'm not enough. These are Britt's words:

So don't let anybody tell you that you're not loved,And don't let anybody tell you that you're not enough.Yeah, there are days when we all feel like we're messed up,But the truth is that we're all diamonds in the rough.

Then she sang something I really needed to hear. "From the inside out it shows that you're worth more than gold."

There it was. I weigh 155 pounds. Today's price of gold is $1,581.50 per ounce. Since there are 16 ounces in a pound, I weigh 2,480 ounces. At that weight I am worth more than $3,922,120 dollars, which is another way of saying, "I'm priceless!"

And so are you!

The next time someone tries to shame you into thinking you're flawed or not up to scratch or low-grade, it's time to shine. It's time to let them know you're determined to take the world by storm!

Go for it!

Now!