Thursday 6 November 2008

The cursed carnival calling you



Life can be seen as a:
1. Curse to Endure
2. Carnival to Enjoy
3. Calling to Enrich

Is your life a curse you try to endure, a carnival you only seek to enjoy and nothing more, or a calling for you to enrich and give meaning to this life as you wisely steward all the resources you have been blest with?

Sometimes, it is so tough to remember that I was supposed to be condemned and damned - that I'm living on Your grace and mercy. How can I keep asking and insisting on my ways and wants, like as if I even deserve anything at all? Forgive me for not knowing my place, Lord.

"Blessed be Your name, when I'm found in the desert place.
Though I walk through the wilderness, blessed be Your name.

Blessed be Your name, when the sun's shining down on me.
When the world's 'all as it should be', blessed be Your name.

Blessed be Your name, on the road marked with suffering.
Though there's pain in the offering, blessed be Your name.

You give and take away, You give and take away.
My heart will choose to say, Lord blessed be Your name."