putting it into perspective.

I was sitting and talking with a friend yesterday, well, basically venting to a friend. A week without my husband and a day of running around with a couple of kids all over town was enough to put me into a slump. I don't know if I can say that my eyes were open or that they were just looking through a pessimistic lens but at the end of the day I just wanted my husband with me and to be living somewhere outside of society...on a farm somewhere. Somewhere where time isn't wasted in a car, where the majority aren't having a bad day and wearing it on their sleeve. Somewhere where an accident is seen as just that, a mere mistake and not as evil intent to be repayed in full. A place where work would take my husband only as far as the field in the backyard. I've been craving the simplicity of a by gone era for a while now and am hit everyday by the evil in this imperfect world I'm living in. I want to run away from all of the busyness and all of the distraction and to just slow down. Then in the middle of my sulking I realized, like a fool, what it was exactly, that I was longing for....this 'farm fantasy?'...my eden...my paradise. My reality?...a fallen world filled with an uncountable number of people, all in some way or another, longing for exactly the same thing. This place doesn't feel right because it isn't. As C.S. Lewis wrote: "I was created for another world." And while that didn't make yesterday feel any better, especially when I was living it, and while, as long as life endures, injustice, hate, and the effects of sin will endure, there is a small but steady sense of peace knowing that whatever this life throws, my God is bigger than it. And that, in reality, as I've been trying to soak in from Ann Voskamp, "ALL is Grace."

I ran across this video a month or two ago and it really put things into perspective. What a sweet and powerful testimony of Grace!

This was grace

by Andrew Laparra

http://vimeo.com/11560198