When good things happen, we are filled with joy and run to God with praise and thanks. When bad things happen, we are filled with sadness and fear, and run to God begging for help. What about all the times “in between” the highs and lows of life? Do we run to God at all? Do we even remember He’s around?
One time in a bible study discussion a woman once asked, “Does God cry? Is He ever sad?” That day the pastor of the church sat with us and tried to answer some of these questions that often cross our minds. “Jesus wept” is written in the bible. I guess that means God does cry, just like we do. If He cries, He must also get sad over the things we do and don’t do.
Personally, I think it’s our “in between” times, where we neglect God, that makes Him sad. I think, in my own life anyway, that He has saved me from so many perils, answered so many prayers, and given me so many joyous moments, that He feels it’s about time I acknowledged Him for a few minutes each day, even in the “in between” times.
I’m in an “in between” time right now. Life is good. I tend daily to my finances, writing, business, and relationships. Nothing out of the ordinary is happening in any area now. There is no emergency to beg for help in. There is no extraordinary thing to cry with joy for. But there is the “normal”. My normal is asking my Lord for help with my itty-bitty daily tasks, no matter how small and giving thanks for my itty-bitty joys, like the beautiful sunflowers my daughter and her friends gave me over the weekend. I need guidance in paying the right bill at the right time, in sending the right email to the right person at precisely the right time, in writing the right words in my blog and books and saying positive things to those I’m with each day. I sit here with my tea and morning news and look at those sunflowers and give thanks for the wonderful weekend we had with those girls. This is my “in between” time.
Keeping in close touch with God in these “in between” times builds my faith stamina for the next high or low – especially for the low.
What is your “in between” time like? Do you share it with your Higher Power? It makes a difference. Kind of keeps faith linear and familiar.
And so, as another day goes by, I believe God gives us these “in between” times to let our faith set and cure, like a newly poured slab of cement, and ….I have written.
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