The Sea of Life

From the unquiet mind of C.S. Lyrics,

Hello my friends, it's good to be sitting at the keyboard again after a long busy weekend. My son (The fly young gentleman in the profile picture of this very blog) had a birthday, and of course Mother's day was Sunday. As the events of the weekend unfolded, I was just swept away by the changes that are constantly taking place in our lives. An infant child is "suddenly" 4 years old. A younger sibling, who it seems like only yesterday, would meet you at the television set in the morning for the daily dose of cartoons, without a care beyond not being late to school, is now a father and the husband of the woman you're kissing on the cheek and wishing a happy Mother's day. Time flies, and life is funny. Very rarely ha ha funny, more like the funny in funny bone...... . People change, and situations change constantly. A lot of times people change for the better, and a lot of times people change for the worse and a lot of changes can't be measured in terms of better or worse. I truly believe that is why, the longer you walk with God, the more you appreciate Him for his staying the same. All of life is fluid and malleable, constantly ebbing and flowing. Sometimes calm and peaceful, and sometimes raging and stormy. When I think of life and this temporal world as a huge body of water, it makes the thought of Jesus walking on the water even more powerful and poignant. This ever changing, fluid stream, that every living being is born into, and therefore constantly subject to, wether they want to be or not, is not only tamed by Jesus ( "Peace, be still." ) , but is actually walked on top of by Him. He makes it very clear that whatever "rules" bind us to working within the fluid ever changing stream (time, in this analogy) , do not apply to Him. He shows us that He can calm it for you, and He shows that He operates outside of it's boundaries. It's almost as if He's saying,"I'm in this world with you, but it can't toss or drive me anywhere. I can change it, but it can never change Me.". How wonderful to know that we have a savior that "... changeth not.". Once enough people have told you something and then changed their mind on you, gained or lost status then changed their whole personality, gotten married, gone away to college, passed away, and so on, you start to appreciate the One Who never changes, a lot more. The One who is the same, today, tomorrow, and ever more. Maybe that's what the songwriter meant when they said, ".... my soul is anchored in Jesus.". When you're on a stormy sea, being tossed and driven all around, buffeted on every side, you need something to anchor to that is unchanging and unmoving. I guess I'm saying that I see what the older saints meant when they told me I'd love God more and more as time went by. Everything in this life changes so much that it makes you cling to the One thing that doesn't! The saddest part, is that it's not just everyone else that changes. Situations transpire in our own lives that can't help but change us, be it positively or negatively. As we grow and change, our own responsibilities hinder us from doing all the things we'd like to do, and from spending as much time with certain people as we would like to. It is truly as if everyone is a ship on the sea, and sometimes you head the same way for a while, and suddenly the sea dictates that you navigate in different directions. That's the funny bone part, what an odd sort of pain it is. Oh how I long for the day, when he bids us, "Come.", like Peter. When he tells us it's time to operate outside of the rules of the stream of time. When we can actually walk on it, instead of being tossed and driven by it. Every now and again we may get a taste of that, in prayer, or in a vision, seeing things from outside of the boundaries of the stream, some of us believing what we are shown, and others sinking from thinking, "This can't be real.". God's gonna transition us from the temporal to the eternal permanently one day. I hope we've learned to walk on water by then, because both boats and swimming will be obsolete.