Well, aren't you? I'm not a saint. I'm a sinner. But I've found a way to live life without all the crap to drag me down. It's like taking a heavy, wet coat off when you come into the warm house. It's like climbing up out of a dank, deep well. I'm working through it. I'm listening. I don't know all the answers. But I know this one.
Forgive the oversimplification but we all get hurt in life. Nobody escapes. We get our toes stepped on, our bubbles popped, our feelings hurt, maybe even our noses punched, maybe worse. We get our hearts broken. And not just once. Some of us maybe even deserve some of the stuff that happens to us. Most of us just get taken once in a while, get blindsided by someone working through their own troubles, get stuff taken out on us when we're innocent. But remember how you couldn't get away with anything when you were a kid - because the parents (or grown ups) were watching? Dad is watching. It's going to be alright. It really is. He's got your back.
Most of the battle is against ourselves. Most of the hurt - we cause it ourselves because we're so sure we screwed everything up so we must deserve it. When stuff happens to you - well maybe it doesn't have anything to do with you not being smart enough or good enough to avoid it. Quit punishing yourself. Because you punish everybody else around you by weighing yourself down with yesterday's hurts. You're no good to yourself that way and you're sure not doing the world any good. And Babe, the world sure needs you to start doing some good. And if nobody loves you maybe you're just not seeing who does. Quit being so morbid. Remember being a kid - when work and money and relationships didn't matter? You could get excited by seeing a deer in the woods or getting an ice cream cone or get lost in a book. Life was good with simple stuff. Lighten up. It can be that way. You can rejoice. Try it.
What if you just walked away from whatever it is that's got you by the neck? I mean really. It's not impossible. You got there, right? You can go somewhere else. Drop it. Let it go. Even if it's grown up all around and through you like a vine - you can still get away. God is God - there's nothing He can't do. He can wither that thing that you think has got you in a stranglehold. Drugs, obsessions, self-destruction. Just look up out of that well. All you've got to do is ask Him. You won't feel any tingle or fire but you will be free. Every day you will make progress out of that hole. Just ask Him, man. Ask Him.
Aren't you tired of living in pain just because it's familiar?
Ki
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