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What's life done for you, lately?
The air was stifling in the dark hole. It sucked the breath right out of me as I continued to dwell upon all the good things which had passed me by and all the icky, slimy stuff which had stuck so tight it filled the void left as the breath departed. Sitting on the bottom of the hole, there was no choice but to accept responsbility for having brought myself so low and acknowledge I had to turn myself around if I hoped to get out of the muck.
Don't know how to turn around? Neither do I. But I know someone who does. "Hey, God, it's me down here in this hole again. I need help."
Have you ever noticed He never gives sympathy--or pity? Does it seem He just makes things get rougher until you have had it so you'll stand up and start pulling yourself out of the hole just to get away from everything? "OK, God, I'm out of the hole now--thanks and no thanks for your assistance!"
Oh, and while I'm at it, I want to really thank you for sending me these thoughts through George Bernard Shaw:
"This is the true joy of life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live.
"Life is no “brief candle” to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations." --George Bernard Shaw
Jane Mullikin
What's life done for you, lately? Life sucks?? We all understand the sentiment for we've all "been there, done that" and our reaction to reading junk about joy was definite--we didn't! As I ponder, I'm listening to a Blues station on www.live365.com. I used to love listening to the blues--oh, yes! I knew where they were coming from--and as I listened I slipped right into a deeply morose mood. I slipped right into a deep, dark hole and pulled those blues right in on top of me.
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