“May you live in interesting times.”
I’ve never really been sure if this is supposed to be a blessing or a curse.
I am definitely living in interesting times.
It seems everything in my life has changed completely from what it was last year at this time. Okay, not everything, but so so much.
Last year I sat in our sukkah in a beautiful yard that was peaceful and serene. I had green grass beneath my feet, blue sky above, a pool with a waterfall in my view. While I was struggling with certain things in my life (when are we not?), I felt peaceful about what my life was and where my life was going.
Then I asked God to let me know if we were where He wanted us to be and doing what He wanted us to do — getting and being where we were was totally God, but was that still where He wanted us?
You know the saying about not asking a question if you don’t really want the answer? 😉
I did want the answer, but it’s one of those things where you don’t understand what you’re asking for or what all comes with the answer. It’s . . . interesting.
This year our sukkah is at a different home — yet another opportunity to remind ourselves that the house in which we dwell is temporary.
This year our sukkah is in a much smaller yard that currently consists of only dirt — yet another opportunity to remind ourselves that we are from the dust of the earth and to dust we shall return.
This year our sukkah is in a yard that has been repeatedly ravaged by wind and the elements to the point that absolutely everything we have attempted in order to make it more beautiful has been blown away, snapped in two, or leveled — yet another opportunity to remind ourselves that our best efforts are not always enough.
Yet our life is full of so many good things.
Resources freed up for us in time for them to be needed.
I might have missed that if I hadn’t been asking God to please put us in the position we needed to be in for what was coming next.
If the Lord is with us, and for us, and directing our paths, we aren’t guaranteed to have everything we want. We do have access to everything we need.
Whether we see that . . . whether or not we are grateful . . . reveals what is going on inside of us.
Some people are miserable in abundant times. Some people are joyful and grateful in lean times. It is perspective that determines which we are.
We can’t force our perspective to change, but we can be willing to change so that our perspective will mature. We can be willing to live in interesting times so that we can grow and change and be challenged. We can trust the Lord enough to get us through today — no matter what is thrown at us — and we can stop worrying about having enough faith for tomorrow, because trusting God today is what grows the faith we’ll need for tomorrow.
I guess that answers my question. “May you live in interesting times” is neither a blessing nor a curse. It is an opportunity.
Thoughts from the Sukkah part 2
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