Life As It Is

"The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak." Mat.26:41

This text has a lot of meaning in it. But it also addresses an issue that becomes more prevalent as you get older. It is the idea that being able to once do things is not the same as doing those things now. The older I get, the better I was. I talk to my friends and I regularly hear them talk about how they used to be or how they used to look or what they used to be able to do. They talk big, but inside they beat themselves up over their inability to do what they used to do easily.

You have to deal with life as it is, not as you wish it was. You can only do what you can do. Someone else telling you what you should do or what you ought to do is not helpful. Life in most instances is not one size fits all. Salvation is the one universal thing. Besides that, you have to live the life that you have, not strive for the life that you want. The older you get the harder this is to do.

To me, midlife crisis is a time when the dreams of childhood die and we panic, wondering what to do now. Some people grow old and never come to grips with the fact that their flesh is weak and it is he that endures to the end who will be saved.

I wear shades, not because my future is so bright, but because I need to protect my eyes from uv rays.