Sitting in my corner
Wondering and worrying
About all they are saying
About all that’s happening;
If the world is crumbling
Just as they are projecting
My world must be wrinkling
Slacking, cracking, failing
As life is raging, ready for tipping:
If thus be so, how possible is it
To live whole and well
In a world dying in seconds?
If such be true, how possible is it
To give thanks no matter what?

For sometime now, I’ve been feeling funny about my eyes. Research agrees with popular news that the longer we live, the more our bodies are failing and falling apart. I appreciate all the blessings I’ve been given, and that I have been blessed with sound health. Nevertheless, based on how I think I’ve been feeling and seeing, I kind of surmised something must be going really wrong with my eyes.

I went in for a thorough check and the results were surprising, comforting, enlightening, and chastising all at the same time. At the end of the various examinations, results from the last 2 years were compared to the present status and my eye health was exactly the same. Every test delivered the same result. In fact the only aspects that changed were better than 2 years ago.

It was good to know where exactly I stood, yet I wondered where all the feelings of “eye unwellness” was coming from and how that feeling was immediately dispelled by the post-investigation discussion. I wondered how we sink into fear and discouragement because of the things we read and hear and think and feel. I wondered how so different life would be if we’d take God by His Word instead of the thoughts and feelings that lead contrary to truth. How different would our attitude and outlook be if we’d spend time with God and His Words concerning us, our loved ones and our situations.

My conclusion is that thoughts and feelings and ideas, read or heard are just not enough. Just as we are scared and weighed down by what we feel and fear, our hearts and lives can be enriched by what we chose to heed and believe. Irrespective of what we see and hear and think and feel, if we would invest more time into researching, believing and living God’s Word, we will be a lot more discerning of times and seasons: so praise-full that nothing would be able to weigh us down. In this season of praise, may your heart be joy-full, may the sound of your praise rise above every word, thought and feelings we naturally tend to nurture, amen!

Blessing
Glory!