Back To Work

You know this time of year is awesome. The holidays, seeing family you hardly ever see, oh yeah and feeding your face until you can hardly breathe. Well at least that's what I do. I have done this for awhile because I was gone with my family in nowheresville PA, no cell service, no t.v., and best of all fun in the snow. Unless you count when my kid got a bloody lip sledding that wasn't fun. But it brings something to mind right now that is cool so I'm going to tell the story. So here goes we were sledding with my extended family. The snow was in that melting stage when it gets real slick and fast, my 12 year old cousin and my daughter were on the sled when it started heading for a tree, so like any dad I took off to stop it. I did stop it but in the process my little one hit her lip on my shin, it puffed up and also bruised her gums and there was blood. So my wife and I took her back to the cabin to get her fixed up and make sure all teeth were in the proper place. But a funny thing happened on the way back my daughter stopped crying and asked if she could go back and watch the rest of the kids finish sledding, of course she couldn't because we still needed to clean her up. By the way she's fine in fact you would never know that anything even happened. But this got me thinking about perseverance. Here was a little 4yr old girl with a busted lip and bruised gums stopping crying and wanting to go watch everyone else. She didn't whine, pout, or even complain she just wanted to get back to life. Now shouldn't this be who we are as Christians, yeah bad things happen maybe our families don't support us or someone says something bad about us that's not true whatever curve life throws at you on any given day. We should bounce back right, get cleaned up rely on God and move on. But many times unlike my daughter we just whine and cry until all we do is whine and cry. Last time I checked us Christians in the USA weren't getting drug out of our houses and being shot we seem to be doing pretty well and besides that doesn't the Bible say things like blessed our the persecuted. Anyways all I'm saying is take it from a 4 yr old quit crying rely on God walk the walk and get back to life.