by Erika Glover
Hello internet. It's Erika. This is my first post on this wonderful little online blog world. I'm very excited to be doing this with my friends! However I do ask you bear with me. I tend to ramble, and while I know what I want to say, sometimes it takes me a try or two to get there.
Life can really suck sometimes. Life isn't always the rainbows and butterflies everyone promised. A man named Forest Gump once said that life was a box of chocolates and now I totally get what he's saying. There are going to be the good hair days where you feel like the queen (or king but ya know) of the world. Those days are like the dark chocolate and raspberry pieces. And then there are going to be the days that everybody is stepping on you, those are like the coconut chocolates (ew). Recently my best friend lost his dad. It was one of those moments that really doesn't feel real & takes a while to sink in. Well, it's been two days and it has definitely done it's sinking. That being said, in those long days that seemed like years, I'm not sure if I've ever prayed more in my life. I can't fathom why God let this happen or better yet why to him. I've dug into myself and cried and asked Jesus many questions & the best I can get is "trust me." Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 talks about a time for everything. There is a time for laughter and a time to weep. It teaches there is a time to mourn and there is a time to dance. There's a time we are born, and there is a time we must all die. These last few days have not been those of dancing, I can assure you that. But God has a plan for a massive party planned and I have to trust that. He has everything laid out. We have to know that he loves us more than anything. Guys, he thought up everything about you. You know that song you were listening to earlier, getting a little bit of a head bop going? Yeah he knew you'd love it. He's THAT cool.
During the hard times of suffering and pain, Jesus wants us to find him. There are things too big for us to wrap our minds around so we must find comfort in his name. He wants to be out friend. He wants us to know he has a place up in heaven with him and his dad that we can spend forever. Death is one of those things that's never easy. On earth it's very hard to accept, since we can't just knock on heavens door to visit.
2 Corinthians says, "For our light and momentary troubles are achieving us for an external glory that far outweighs them all. So we must learn to fix our eyes not on what is seen, but what is unseen. For it is eternal." This Earth that we love is our temporary home, God has something bigger. Something better than we could ever imagine. And all we must do is trust him through every bad and every good day.
Life can really suck sometimes. Life isn't always the rainbows and butterflies everyone promised. A man named Forest Gump once said that life was a box of chocolates and now I totally get what he's saying. There are going to be the good hair days where you feel like the queen (or king but ya know) of the world. Those days are like the dark chocolate and raspberry pieces. And then there are going to be the days that everybody is stepping on you, those are like the coconut chocolates (ew). Recently my best friend lost his dad. It was one of those moments that really doesn't feel real & takes a while to sink in. Well, it's been two days and it has definitely done it's sinking. That being said, in those long days that seemed like years, I'm not sure if I've ever prayed more in my life. I can't fathom why God let this happen or better yet why to him. I've dug into myself and cried and asked Jesus many questions & the best I can get is "trust me." Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 talks about a time for everything. There is a time for laughter and a time to weep. It teaches there is a time to mourn and there is a time to dance. There's a time we are born, and there is a time we must all die. These last few days have not been those of dancing, I can assure you that. But God has a plan for a massive party planned and I have to trust that. He has everything laid out. We have to know that he loves us more than anything. Guys, he thought up everything about you. You know that song you were listening to earlier, getting a little bit of a head bop going? Yeah he knew you'd love it. He's THAT cool.
During the hard times of suffering and pain, Jesus wants us to find him. There are things too big for us to wrap our minds around so we must find comfort in his name. He wants to be out friend. He wants us to know he has a place up in heaven with him and his dad that we can spend forever. Death is one of those things that's never easy. On earth it's very hard to accept, since we can't just knock on heavens door to visit.
2 Corinthians says, "For our light and momentary troubles are achieving us for an external glory that far outweighs them all. So we must learn to fix our eyes not on what is seen, but what is unseen. For it is eternal." This Earth that we love is our temporary home, God has something bigger. Something better than we could ever imagine. And all we must do is trust him through every bad and every good day.