Sunday 5 April 2015

The Assurance of Things Hoped For.

Well here goes. Some things you have got to fight for. Life isn't easy, it never was, and it sure never will be. I used to imagine that life gets easier as you grow up - that past the awkward stages of adolescence things just fall in place somehow; that having navigated safely (or perhaps even not so safely) down the long and winding and twisted path that youth presents we'd find ourselves on the straight and narrow; that maturity could and would be wielded like some enchanted tree branch and decisions would be clear and come easy.

Well, I'm coming to discover that's not what maturity was meant for. We fight it out and we grow and we learn and we survive and we move on - not so that we can fall back one day, stand easy, pretend the battle is done. No. Maturity means we're better equipped, with the lessons of battles past, to deal with the present, to prepare for the future. Decisions get harder - not the other way round; they impact more people, more.

Well, "nobody said it was easy, no one ever said it would be so hard." But we have faith. Imperfect faith, to be sure - but in the One who is perfectly faithful.

Blessed Resurrection Sunday all!