In moments of fear and panic and distress our worldly wisdom breaks down and we are left without a clear course of action. For a moment we experience the futility and pointlessness of this temporal existence. For a moment we cannot deny what really matters, we cannot ignore our helplessness.
In moments of despair and panic and overwhelming grief we lose track of all the contrived priorities that dictate our daily behavior. Grief and sorrow will occasionally be overwhelming. Despair and desperation will on occasion enter our lives. This carnal world is too far removed from the Kindom, our human creations and contrivances are too irrational and arbitrary, for anyone with any awareness of soul to not sometime succumb to the temptation of despair and depression. In our temporary panic and our momentary shirking of worldly routine while we accommodate the loss, the sickness, the shock, we are simply acknowledging the contrived nature of most of what we take so seriously when all is going well.
Occasionally we must toss out the routine schedule when grief and shock beset our soul. Crises do not lend themselves to rote and routine.
The sick loved one, the news of the accident, the shock of the loss, these need to jolt us out of plans and routine and complacency.
We fool ourselves into taking our worldly obligations, plans, and routines so seriously, but on occasion the shocks and fear and grief and sorrow do not allow us the luxury. Worldly events grab us and turn us and force us to gaze at the gaping Void between this temporal - carnal world and the Kindom for which we unconsciously long.
Soon
enough the routines of the world will again preoccupy our thoughts. But for
a moment allow that glimpse of the wretched condition of this carnal - temporal
world, dare to look into the seeming Void between this place and the
Kindom. Your grief and sorrow may momentarily overwhelm you. But
you will pass through the trial with a sharper image of the Destiny Home we
long for, an image putting this momentary human world into perspective, an
image revealing the surprising presence of the Spirit of that-Destiny Home even
here and now, a presence providing the
strength and loving reason to continue on.
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