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Monday, June 9, 2014

A Fistful of Balloons

Ever wanted to hold so many balloons that it would lift you off your feet a little bit?  I wonder how many television shows have used that image....I have always thought it would be fun.

There is a common thought concept out there....it goes like this:


I've been thinking about that idea for the last two days....some has been due to watching friends deal with their emotions toward their kids graduating and going off to college and a little has been due to a conversation I had with a sweet woman at my church.  She's walking a really tough road right now and she was telling me about part of it.  I was a little stunned by what she was telling me and then at the end of her story she asked for advice.  I was still in a stunned state, so I didn't have any advice planned out in my mind....I whispered a quick..."what should I say?" to God and He reminded me of when we got the call from the adoption agency that they had selected a different family for Savannah and Danielle and how I had hurt over that and how I had been confused at what God was doing because in my heart I had really thought he had given me clear confirmation that they would be joining our family.  What I didn't understand was that the journey to get where God was taking us was going to require some very strange detours...So, I told her about that story and that our journey doesn't always make sense to us. BUT, God is faithful....THIS IS ALL I KNOW.

There is give and take in a lot of areas of life and decisions about priorities....and, even at a higher level, when you know God says, "hold on to this"...."let go of that"...or, "in order to hold on to this, you have to let go of that"...or (harder still) is when He says, "In order to hold on to ME you must let go of that thing or that person."  Dare we utter, "but why?"....His ways float high above ours.

To me it is not so much a balance between holding on to some things and letting go of others because that seems to assume that I am at the highest point in the decision process....I believe it is more like this:


He must become greater and greater; I must become less and less.  ~John 3:30

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk2y18c_n2w&feature=kp

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