Conversation with God
So I was watching this TV show...it inspired great insight. And they say TV rots the brain. Not if you choose to watch educational TV...like the Gilmore Girls!
So picture it. A 16 year old girl. Young, naive, impressionable. Meets a boy. The butterflies start flying. First love, first kiss, first date, all those great things. She's on cloud nine. Then the inevitable...first break up, first heartache. She's crushed. Her family is worried about her. Her friends want the old friend back, not this new moapy person. and it HITS me!
It's so unfair in life to have something so wonderful...but have it so sporadic or rare or only for a short while. EVERYONE should be able to feel those wonderful love feelings ALL THE TIME. It shouldn't only be some people while others have to live without. It shouldn't only be for temporary amounts of time to where you have it, then have to get over it (because let's face it, that's just cruel). Everyone, all the time. That should be a given when you're born. Because to have it any other way, just isn't fair.
So after that bitter rant, in true Ben Headley fashion, I knew there had to be a spiritual lesson in there somewhere. I immediately came up with two.
1. If you are in Christ, then you DO have that feeling of love and worth and acceptance all the time. And it's more wonderful than anything earthly because it's GOD! and his love and acceptance of us is unmatchable with anything on this crazy world. He's constantly loving us, caring for us, hanging on our every word. I am the apple of his eye, and he gives me everything that's wonderful and good. So why should we need anything more? "nothing I desire, compares with You"...right? So really, I just need to get over myself.
2. I'm sure Jesus would agree with me that everyone should get to feel the most wonderful things all the time. Because he loves us and takes care of us and wants the best for us. So I picture Jesus in all His glory approaching God and saying..."Can we please give that wonderful feeling of love and worth and acceptance to everyone on earth so that they can feel the butterflies doing somersaults and that tingly feeling all the time???!!! So they have all that one special person who loves them no matter what? Can we, Can we???!!! Please because I love them so much and I know how much they love that!!" and then God says, "as much as I respect how much you love them, I love them too. and right now, whether they are experiencing it or not, have ever experienced it or not, they are learning from it and they are hopefully learning to trust me more and grow closer to me. So let's just stick with my love story chosen for each of them, and that'll be what's best."
and so to that i say...*sigh*. Okay. Will do.
So picture it. A 16 year old girl. Young, naive, impressionable. Meets a boy. The butterflies start flying. First love, first kiss, first date, all those great things. She's on cloud nine. Then the inevitable...first break up, first heartache. She's crushed. Her family is worried about her. Her friends want the old friend back, not this new moapy person. and it HITS me!
It's so unfair in life to have something so wonderful...but have it so sporadic or rare or only for a short while. EVERYONE should be able to feel those wonderful love feelings ALL THE TIME. It shouldn't only be some people while others have to live without. It shouldn't only be for temporary amounts of time to where you have it, then have to get over it (because let's face it, that's just cruel). Everyone, all the time. That should be a given when you're born. Because to have it any other way, just isn't fair.
So after that bitter rant, in true Ben Headley fashion, I knew there had to be a spiritual lesson in there somewhere. I immediately came up with two.
1. If you are in Christ, then you DO have that feeling of love and worth and acceptance all the time. And it's more wonderful than anything earthly because it's GOD! and his love and acceptance of us is unmatchable with anything on this crazy world. He's constantly loving us, caring for us, hanging on our every word. I am the apple of his eye, and he gives me everything that's wonderful and good. So why should we need anything more? "nothing I desire, compares with You"...right? So really, I just need to get over myself.
2. I'm sure Jesus would agree with me that everyone should get to feel the most wonderful things all the time. Because he loves us and takes care of us and wants the best for us. So I picture Jesus in all His glory approaching God and saying..."Can we please give that wonderful feeling of love and worth and acceptance to everyone on earth so that they can feel the butterflies doing somersaults and that tingly feeling all the time???!!! So they have all that one special person who loves them no matter what? Can we, Can we???!!! Please because I love them so much and I know how much they love that!!" and then God says, "as much as I respect how much you love them, I love them too. and right now, whether they are experiencing it or not, have ever experienced it or not, they are learning from it and they are hopefully learning to trust me more and grow closer to me. So let's just stick with my love story chosen for each of them, and that'll be what's best."
and so to that i say...*sigh*. Okay. Will do.
posted by Lisa | 9:44 AM
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