Life is hard

Life is a hard thing. I was at a meeting today and got hugs from some great colleagues and friends! I describe how things were in my life currently as finally having the top of my head starting to poke back up from under the water. I went on to say how I looked forward to my eyes finally surfacing so I could get some vision back and then finally my nose to start breathing again.

Between school, filling in a church and now my husband on midnights for a few weeks, I am tired. It actually all started when my dad got really sick in January. He spent a month in the hospital and the doctors tell us we was dying when he arrived and they are amazed he pulled through! Praise God! As we study Creation and the Triune God in systematic theology, I am more sensitive to the places and situations that God reveals himself to us. Really if you pay attention to what is going on around you, God is everywhere! I believe these are the places that we can and do see God face to face here on earth!

And the Trinity... what an idea to believe that the Trinity is in us and we in the Trinity!! What do you think? I think it is a beautiful image! We can never be like the Trinity, but to be in such close and intimate relationship with the Trinity, it makes sense that we dwell within each other. To read more about that idea/concept/theology read Kathryn Tanner Christ the Key.

Life is hard... so much brokenness, darkness, sadness it makes you wonder about hope... And then you are reminded about our Creator God, who created us in His image and called his creation very good. Our hope lies in Christ who died and was buried and on the third day rose again. Our hope hangs on the cross. Our hope comes in the arms of Christ who carries us through the brokenness, the darkness and sadness. He carries us back into the light.