F A D E

I'm blowing away,
Shadows take my love and leave, 
I'm blowing away,
Shadows keep taking my love and leaving me

So,  money, work, home... future.

All OK?

If we haven't had issues in one or all of those areas so far this year, chances are we will have before too long.

And then there's health.
Has there ever been a time when that issue has been so thorny!
People only have to sneeze or cough now in public and droves of nearby folk can be knocked into full panic mode.

It probably wouldn't matter so much if we could see a silver lining - a glimmer on the horizon even that something better is on the way if we just wait, just hold on a little longer.

Sadly, it's not there.

This year, if most of us are honest, has hit us like a blunt force trauma.
We've looked around for those who have the means to get us out of here - they came in droves at the start with their high hopes, their graphs and their predictions, but where are they now?
Listen carefully, between the poorly set smiles and PR prose, and you'll pick up what's actually going on....

They don't know.

Well, we do know.
There's going to be pain, and trouble and struggle aplenty, and even if one hurdle is leapt, giving us a moment or two of triumph,  you can be sure that this will lead us to apprehending numerous, probably countless others,
especially our own mortality, and the brevity of life not just for us, but for everyone we love.

It's all there to bring us to our knees,
to cause us to realise, it's too much -

that's the purpose.

To make us look beyond ourselves for help.

And the answer.

So, there's really only one question to ask right now,
in the midst of all this trouble.

Where are you going to turn?

Is your life going to merely run out one day soon,
leaving you as food for worms?

Or,
Are you looking further, harder, deeper, into what's going on,
and why.

Religious behaviour is what we do when we go through the motions, because we don't know what matters.

Life is full when we know not just what we are, but why we are.

That manner of meaning and purpose can change everything, even in the midst of all the present madness.

I came to bring life, said Jesus, full and abundant.

Find it today.