Reality of Life

... if you seek GOD, your God, you'll be able to find him if you're serious, looking for him with your whole heart and soul. Deuteronomy 4: 29, The Message


"Normal life is full of distractions and irrelevancies. Then catastrophe: Illness. Accident. Job loss. Divorce. Death. The reality of our lives is rearranged without anyone consulting us or waiting for our permission. ...

All of us are given moments, days, months, years of "exile." What will we do with them? Wish we were someplace else? Complain? Escape into fantasies? Drug ourselves into oblivion? Or build and plant and marry and seek the shalom of the place we inhabit and the people we are with? Exile reveals what really matters and frees us to pursue what really matters, which is to seek the Lord with all our hearts.

Run with the Horses


Reality of Life, God's Message for Every Day by Eugene Peterson.