Dancing Around
Ever have someone ask you a question you wished they hadn't asked?
I see questions that wives ask their husbands then get angry because they didn't like the answer. When I first see that I wonder why would you ask such a question? Two, why would you ask such a question?
Maybe they have too many clothes if they can seriously ask a stupid question like, 'does this make me look fat?'
Since I've never had a wide amount of wardrobe choices, I just put on what I have and that's it. I hope it goes well with my persona, but I'm not losing sleep over it.
A number of years ago the husband part of a pair of church friends hadn't been feeling well. He went in for some tests. At the explanation of his x-rays, the doctor hem hawed around explaining them. The couple later told us it looked to them as if the doctor was evading them. As if he didn't want to tell them something.
They had perceived the situation right enough. The husband had a rare form of cancer. Not only that, the cancer was advanced and the husband's life expectancy was short.
Bad news that no one wants to hear.
I've seen a sculpture of a man and woman apparently dancing—or maybe not. It may be a dance or a struggle. It is supposed to represent the relationships between men and women, or man and wife.
That sculpture could represent our relationship with life in general or other people in general, not just men and women. Very few relationships are all easy peasy and no problems. Even with people we like and get along well with it isn't always smooth sailing.
Likewise, life isn't always easy, and often those who have it the easiest aren't the most happy. Sometimes they aren't happy at all. Attitude has a lot to do with how we handle situations.
There are theories on why different people handle what life throws at them in the ways they do. It could be genetic, it could be personal philosophy, it could be random happenings. Life in it's purest form is a struggle for survival. It would be lovely if we could sit in our tent door and bask in the sunshine and have no concern for tomorrow. Concern might not be the right word, scripture speaks of it as taking thought.
To take thought is not to worry, but more along the line of planning. We need to become more prayerful, casting our cares on Him, who cares for you (and me). Why do we do some of the things we do? We aren't always certain.
Philippians 3:13 "Brethren, I count not myself yet to have laid hold: but one thing I do, forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, 14) I press on toward the goal unto the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus."
