the autumn of our lives
The subject title took me a couple of seconds to think of, and I know it sounds super-cheesy, but it is almost autumn.I have been looking around at some of my friend's blogs and most of the latest posts seem either to be introspective or agonizing in some way. My blog is a harbinger of mixed tidings, and it seems to get me into a lot more trouble than I started out with. However, things are changing. Not just for me, but for all of us. Whether the change be good or bad, there are things that we are facing which are hard for us to figure out sometimes. Some of us are trying to cope with girl problems (and guy problems for all my friends-who-are-girls), others with sickness in their family, still others with school and also with loneliness.
We often make bad decisions in trying to rectify our situations, and our decisions can hurt us. I was reading a verse to a friend, that had stuck in my head since I had first read it many months ago. It says in Psalms 119: 71: "It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn Your statutes." I am sure that most all of you are no stranger to this verse, or even the realization that we learn better when we are faced with some sort of roadblock in our lives. However, times are changing.
Something that makes me laugh is to hear high schoolers saying that high school was the best time of their lives. They had their first girlfriend or boyfriend, who they would be with forever, they had a tight community of friends to support them, they had easy classes, and the list goes on. Why it's so funny to me, is that we move on after high school. Most of our friends are gone to colleges around the country, our girlfriends or boyfriends have long since broken up with us, and classes got a lot harder (which means you should have been studying harder in high school). Not only are our lives different, but our problems are different as well. Life never gets easier for a Christian man or woman. But because life never stops becoming difficult for us, it makes it much easier for us to come to the Lord on a daily basis and ask Him for help and guidance. We are reminded so many times in the Scriptures that the Lord is our help and stay, and He will not leave one of His children to remain lost.
Times are certainly changing...we are in the autumn of our lives, which is not to say that we are really old (how old is autumn anyways?), but that our lives are changing. This is the point in our lives where we really need to fear God and realize that He is in control of everything. Friends, take heart! Our Lord is with us always.
-luke
posted by brodie @ 1:33 AM
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