Always time for a new venture, quest or picnic along the journey. So many smiles, pain, cures and prayers. When the downs become ups it is never time to go sideways, but push on. Though history shouts loudly, leave to its refined wisdom and sally onward to application of its gift of learning. Experience is the one we never count on or teach, that somehow things get easier, more difficult, brighter or duller when we’re put upon. It is always the reaction or overreaction that makes the cop write the ticket. When good or bad are simply perspectives not judgments, then things naturally begin to coalesce around a natural response.

I work for God, I am not even one of His important people, just a man who knows God has the answers, provision, protection and promises that I lack in simplicity or ignorance. When you need food you go where you know something’s cooking. This is not a plight but an opportunity. You are not my enemy or someone lesser, lost or dreaming, but a potential, Brother, Sister or Friend. A dull whit does not mean that you don’t have good joy, comedy or a loving heart. Most things are mutually exclusive as you will find evil men in positions that possess great opportunity to applied mercy, hope and compassion. Those with humble and righteous hearts often give from abundance in scarcity while those with stockpiles guard them.

Sitting here on my own version of the planet, hoping that rings align, skies are clear and the temperature only fluctuates between just right and warm and cozy. But that is not how the universe is designed. Walking or running uphill with multiple burdens is naturally difficult. Trying to satiate hunger without available sustenance is not impossible. Doing without may be trying but in many measures it builds gratitude, contentment and character unavailable for the powerful and well provisioned. I don’t mind having enough but given too much the true joy begins, spreading the wealth around. Not being told by government to do or having goods taken from me but appreciating the chance to love people in true faithful demonstration of the command God gave Peter. These people after all were created by God and if I am given too much then it is naturally my duty to make sure they have a sufficiency. Nothing pleases me more than seeing a man, woman or child lose hunger, poverty, fear and doubt all in the same sitting.