Which Way Is Up?

You know how sometimes life is so full you're just not sure which way is up? But you're pretty sure you know which way is down, because you're falling fast, and it seems any moment could be that impending crash? When the kids get sick, and you sleep through the alarm, and you ruin your diet, and the bicycle gets a flat tire again, and the screen shatters...

(Ya. Bummer.)

When you can't figure out where those tears are coming from, or why it was that you walked into the kitchen, and you're behind on the to-do list, and the laundry's piled high, and all you can muster up for dinner is corn dogs. When the bills keep coming in, and you know the doctor way too well, but the pain is still there, and you're buried in paper-work, and another trip out of town, and you forget to pack your pjs, but it doesn't matter because you're tired enough to sleep in your jeans?

Yep. You know it.

Yet, there is a peace.

Peace.

Because there is hope.

Hope.

A calm smile and a joy-filled heart, because you know...

He won't let go!

The circumstances don't change friends, our response to them does. The expressions on our face and the attitudes of our hearts... that is what changes. Our confidence in Christ.

Life is full, and sometimes it's hard.

But Christ still reigns!

And day in, and day out, we get to choose again and again to trust Him. To lay down our burdens and pick up our cross.

A continual response of living in the presence of God. Daily surrender.

No matter what we are facing today... Jesus is enough!