Melancholy

It’s not just about how you feel. Sometimes you just have to trust!

 

I’m a bit melancholy today.

Not the kind that spirals down into depression. Mine is more like a slow-down of my thought processes to think about things that I seldom think about. And even my mild melancholy doesn’t amount to much nor does it last long.

With the motivational gift of ‘exhorter’, I’m a pretty positive person and I love giving encouragement I see the potential good in even bad circumstances and am always one of the first to see a rainbow at the end of tough times.

That said, I’ve been listening to music of the 80s on Spotify as I’ve been working in the yard. So many of the ballads have a sad bent to them… especially the ones about lost love. (Country music isn’t the only genre that can spin a tragedy into platinum sales!)

I have two people that I’m close to who have had that kind of a story. From being loved always and forever, the story ends with not just diminished love, but ‘gone forever’ love. And that’s when the song says, “How am I supposed to live without you?”

But there have been riotously grand finales to both stories. That’s because God loves to minister to people who have been trampled – by words, losses, health issues and spiritual harassment.

I take immense comfort in stories of Jesus relating to and ministering to the downcast, lowly, disadvantaged people to whom the quality of life contained little to no quality at all.

  • Jesus interrupts a funeral, resurrects a boy and gives a grievinig mother reason to hope again. (Luke 7:11-18)
  • Jesus steps into a father’s worst nightmare… a demonized son whose life demands constant attention and worry. When Jesus leaves him, his son is healed and life takes a decidedly different direction for that family. (Matthew 17:14-21)
  • A woman who had suffered the torment and embarrassment of continual bleeding simply touches his robe without being seen and Jesus’ power grants her the ability to live life healed at that instant. (Luke 8:43-48)
  • Jesus interacts with ten men who had no standing in their day. Leperosy was a life sentence with diminishing abilities and absolutely no future. They called to Jesus from the normal social distancing their disease required, and from that distance Jesus terminated that which had sidelined them from life and restored all of them. (Luke 17:11-19)

Jesus knows not only how badly your life’s song is going, but is ready and willing to put a brand new song in your soul. When He does, sing it loudly and often!

 

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