Up There

Its been awhile since i had one of these expositions, but hey...


It has also been awhile since I climbed a really tall tree, but thankfully that has been made up for by tall buildings in Nairobi's city center, so whenever I feel like having a height (ened) experience, I simply go to the 7th floor of the Norwich union house. Works for me anyway.

The reason why I mention it is because I think it's an experience everyone should have. Standing up there looking down at the city gives you quite a different view of the usually packed street. No pollution, no litter, no people bumping into you or anything. Besides, one can see for miles in every direction...


Up there, there's such peace, such calm, such a sense of order and understanding of what's going on around you. It occurred to me that it is the same thing in my relationship with God. If I could just get up there with Him, and be able to look at my life from His perspective, above all the hustle and bustle; above the worries and uncertainties for the future; His peace will keep me.


It sure beats worrying about what's around the corner, or doing acrobatic jumps to skip all those potholes and patches in my path.

Disappointments

Life is packed with disappointing moments, days and things. I had one of those days today...

But of all things most disappointing, I must put at the top of the list...people! Think about it, look at the moments/ things/ days that totally disappointed you in the last one week...You'll find that most of them were because of people who let you down, did something they weren't supposed to do, made you cry...

But if you look further, you'll realize that the people who feature most on that list are the people closest to you -  your friends, your family. I think maybe it's because we expect so much of the people in our lives that when they fail to come through, the cut is deeper.

But my thoughts today are a bit swerved in this direction: because people have disappointed us before, is that a reason to lose faith in the human race? Because friends have proved unreliable in the past, does that mean we are never to take on new friends, so we can stay unhurt? Because we fear for our brittle hearts, are we to turn down and turn away from anyone who tries to come near us? If we never give people the chance to prove themselves, do we not risk losing an opportunity to share in some special person's life?

Perhaps I am getting soft in my old age, but this wall has come up in my face recently, and I thought I'd ramble :)...and be gone for now.