Enough

God's been slowly teaching me something these past couple months and I still can't put words to it.  A friend today asked how God stuff was and my mind started going 501 mph and I told her I didn't have words for it yet.

Then I read THIS (yes that means click this and read the blog post) and realized this is part of what I've been learning and seeing.  It's hard and it's sad to see everyone around me pretend to be so complete and pretend to be fulfilled by the fleeting things of this world.  There this emptiness is the back of their voices and in the spaces in their eyes.  That sounds weird, but look at the people around you.  Look at them.  Talk to them, and listen to them.  There's this emptiness that creeps me out because they aren't whole, that space hasn't been filled with Jesus and the worldly things they fill it with keep leaking out because they'll never be enough.  Relationships definitely don't complete you; good grades don't complete you; money doesn't complete you; mission trips don't complete you; music doesn't complete you; drinking and drugs and partying doesn't complete you.  All these things can promise happiness and good times and the bad things going away, but nothing actually works.

The worst part for me is seeing people I care about walking in this lie, looking to the world for satisfaction and joy.  I do what I can and let Jesus do the rest.

Then go read THIS (yes, this is a link too).  There's so much hurt and pain and suffering in the world.  There's so much hate and anger.  There's so much hunger and thirst and disease.  BUT, Jesus won.  We are covered by grace and God is always good and always faithful.  What happens doesn't always, or even often, make sense but something that I cannot let go of and that I believe with my life is that God is good and He is faithful.  He IS.

Don't ever let go of that.