Having suddenly and unexpectedly grown old, I'm keeping my eye out for the gold nuggets only old age brings...and I'm finding them!
For instance, I was reminded recently of an instance back in the day when I was made mock of by a bully...and nobody or nothing came to my aid. I felt hurt, mortified and helpless.
Later I learned that same bully was in prison, and I felt goooood. It was hearing recently that he'd turned his life around and was now dedicated to helping the really downtrodden of life that called that time to mind. I felt joy for him and humbled both at the same time.
In truth, I felt joyously humbled because of my life in between. From his act, my hurt grew into resentment so deep that I was forced by my own circumstances to let it go...to mentally hug him and kiss him and let him and his actions go. Now to be given the gift of learning of a positive outcome for him was just...my old-age gold nugget.
The injustices of the reasoning-mind world are so many and so varied, that it is beyond wonderful that any thinking person ever comes to believe in a kind and merciful God who only loves us. That is precisely why finding and accepting a God of our own understanding is essential if we want to have a happy place to turn to when we get all up in our head.
That happy place is then ours, our hidey-hole with God, for however long we're given on this earth. (We may think we don't want to live to see eighty or ninety but the closer we get to it, the harder we hold on...remember the old gospel song, Everybody wants to go to Heaven, nobody wants to die.)
The grace of God is ever with us. Never forget, "us" includes our enemies, also known as "future friends."
Thank you.
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