A bitter reality
Posted by: Seth Ben-Ezra in Theology and Spirituality, Thoughts About My LifeOne of my best friends is moving today. He’s leaving this area and moving to Tennessee. I think that it’s the right thing for him to do, but that doesn’t make it hurt less.
Have you ever considered the sorrow under which we labor? The only way to keep your heart safe is to close it off, keep it safe from others. If you cannot be touched, you cannot be hurt. But if you cannot be touched, you also cannot love and be loved. Those who keep themselves aloof from others are the most miserable of all humans. But, everything in this world that we might love we will most assuredly lose. Everything that we touch turns to dust while we watch. Grasp it with both hands, and it slips through your fingers, leaving nothing but emptiness.
Truly, the Preacher spoke aright: “Consider the work of God: who can make straight what He has made crooked?” (Ecclesiastes 7:13)
“For the creation was subjected to futility….”(Romans 8:20a)
(to be continued)
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