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If I Had It To Do All Over Again
SUMMARY
Yes, there is much to reflect on as we go
down the western slope. Because life is both
fragile and precious, our Heavenly Father is
aware of our needs, our will to keep on keeping
on, our desire for balance and equilibrium in
daily routines. Life is never going to be perfect.
It wasn't before, and it won't be now.
The longer we live, we experience both an
enlarged sense of both happiness and
saddness. When Christ went to a funeral,
these amazing words are recorded.
"Jesus
wept."
(John 11 :35). Because he had our
humanity, and was touched with the feeling of
our infirmity when He went to the cemetery, He
wept -- in spite of the fact that He intended to
restore life.
At anxious times of life, it is okay to hurt, to
cry, to rest, and to get away now and then. Our
Creator's
compassion _ is
boundless.
Sometimes, when words fail, tears start to flow.
But that's okay. God takes special notice of
those tears. We are told in Psalms 56:8 that
God puts our tears in a bottle, and He records
them. King David said,
"The
Lord has heard
the voice ofmy weeping."
God will never forget
the crises in our lives that cause our tears.
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