Scripture: Ecclesiastes 3:4 - ...a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to morn and a time to dance.
"If I am annoyed or frustrated or have gotten my feelings hurt, I often explode and the dust settles quickly afterward." How many times have you "gone off the handle"? Sometimes when we blow up, it is quickly over and we move on with life.
However, "...there are times when I simmer for a while, when I am irritated or I hapen to be in a sour mood....I give myself an allotment of time to indulge my feelings and often that is enough to validate them and bid them adieu." Have you ever been made and just left the feelings to sour in your tummy for a while? Taken time to mull them over, talk yourself through them, and then spit them back out?
I'll admit it first then. I talk to myself all the time! I talk to myself when I'm talking the kiddos to and from daycare and, of course, when I'm by myself driving each way. I also talk to myself when I've had an upset customer yelling at me. I talk to myself when I'm going to bed. I guess a blog is a bit like talking to myself as well...it lets me get it all out in the open...whether good or bad. Talking through the situations, even with yourself, can help alleviate so much! (And actually, I consider it as talking to God which makes me feel way better!)
"...we have to run the gamut of emotions to work our way back, but we have to come back. Ancient times required a grieving widow to wear ashes...for a prescribed time...then she had to clean up and rejoin the living. We have to do the same thing." What a statement! We can weep and mourn, but we have to come back! That says a lot. God knew that we would be a people who could be hurt and he prepared for this. But, he also knows we cannot stay in that weeping and mourning state forever. Have you ever lost someone you really loved? I can remember several losses that took their heavy toll on me from family members to friends to co-workers. For some it was old age, or cancer, or car accidents...for some, it was too soon! Can you imagine wha tyou would be like if you held in your weeping and your mourning of the loss...what a bitter person you would be...like Naomi in the book of Ruth..."'Don't call me Naomi," she told them. "Call me Mara, because the Almight has made my life very bitter..."' (Ruth 1:20) I cannot imagine being so bitter that I would change my name to be Bitter!
Even Jesus wept...it's in the story of Lazarus in the book of John, chapter 11. '"Jesus wept....Then the Jews said, "See how he loved him!"....Lazarus, come out!...Jesus said to them, "Take off the grave clothes and let him go."' While the story in John is left with a less than satisfactory ending, one can assume that since Jesus loved Lazarus so deeply, he must have greatly rejoiced with his Father answered his prayer! He must have rejoiced with Mary and Martha and the rest of the friends!
While there is a time for weeping and mourning, two very good and happy things follow...laughter and dancing! So, pull out the funnies and kick up your legs!
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