Peace within the frenetic demands of life and loss

We face a battle of survival every day. Certainly anyone who discerns that this life is full of good and evil knows this. We accept this and we can prosper. It makes no sense not to accept it. The nature of life in this fallen world does not and cannot change.

Let’s couple two enigmatic challenges together: the frenetic nature of life within the finality of numbing loss.

Loss, when we face its depth, changes us from the inside out. We do not get to take the old version of ourselves with us, as we’re transformed.

Through grief we not only learn to let go of what we no longer have, we learn to let go of that essence of ourselves that was attached to what we’ve lost.

Loss malforms us and grief eventually reforms us. We cannot stay the same. What is inevitable may produce its own grief as we flail for any semblance of control we can retain.

And even as we contemplate a life of loss we cannot control and cannot even navigate at times we live amid a life that is also so frenetic it feels we’re missing our essence even as we miss out on truly experiencing all of the experiences we have.

Then there is the dilemma of getting our lives wrong, the mistakes we make, the regrets we have, the decisions we’ve decided that have proven unwise, the missed opportunities. And this kind of list runs on. We find ourselves reflective.

What is remarkable about life, however, is its nature of evening. We can turn everything around for our good, if we can only accept what’s done and move on with a redemptive mindset. God is the Lord of the second chance.

As we accept the components and facets of our life that don’t work, haven’t and won’t, accepting there is a way to be found that does and will, God will pave a way for us to create the way of our desires, within the realm of possibility. We may well be blown away with what God is about to show us and do for us, even as we’re prepared to ‘do’ for ourselves—by taking responsibility for our lives.

And all this out of loss and the frenetic nature of life.

All this out of what threatens to destroy us.

All this for what we’re destined to become.

All this and more as a compensation for what we’ve been through.

Loss is not the end; it’s literally the beginning.

The end of our demand for control is death through loss, but then there is life through a grief that sets us on a journey where we ever discover ourselves in our discovering God!

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