I have been soul-sick for several months now. But today I feel okay. Both the pain and the relief are inexplicable. I accept mystery… as long as it stays theoretical. But I find practical mysteries at best annoying: where are my glasses, which street do I take, why is the car making that noise? When not knowing is costing me money or making me late or (more profoundly) hurting my relationships or my heart, I become agitated. For me, ignorance is not bliss, it is often agony. My method for coping with a scary, unpredictable world is to figure it out, experiment till I get it working, find new configurations for the parts lying on the floor. As long as I have untried options, I can keep hope alive.
TRY THIS IN THE DARK
But I seem to have run out of options. I don’t know why I am depressed and I can do nothing to change it. It is a mystery of the worst kind. Mystery is just a highfalutin word for confusion, and being lost and blind does not make me happy, especially when I bash my shins every other step. Kimberly is struggling in the same way, and it has driven us to our new year’s resolution or annual theme of life: be okay with not being okay. It is our stumbling way of embracing faith. It doesn’t light our path or clear away the rubble, but it is our way of handing back the situation to God: “We’ve tried everything, and it doesn’t work, so we’ll try to adjust ourselves to whatever might come.”
I commented to Kimberly in our prayer time two nights ago that I’m stuck with God. If I thought I could find more peace with the devil, I’d look up his address, but I know leaving God would make me even more miserable. I can make no sense of what God does, but I trust who He is, and for now that has to be enough.
Janathan Grace Reflections 
your honesty is refreshing… have i said that before? 🙂 thanks for allowing us to peek into your life and observe how you walk your faith.
Thanks for reading and for the encouraging words, Judy. I’m grateful that today was a good day regardless of what tomorrow brings.
I think the devil, if he even exists, has only drive and ambition, and pride. If you hold hope and faith close to your heart, you can’t go wrong.
For you:
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 … So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
Thanks for the encouraging words, Maesha. Have a blessed day.
Thanks for visiting my blog – I too have had a season of fog lately, here is my post aobut it with a link to another blog that is really worth reading.
Blessings to you and your wife –
Bev
Bev, I don’t see the link?
so sorry – forgot to paste it – 🙂
http://married2mydreamman.wordpress.com/2012/10/27/its-a-little-foggy-here/
Thanks!