Having a Bad Day?

Sometimes I think we all become bushel basket Christians
We hide ourselves from the pain
But eventually someone will find us – WE HOPE
…and they will try to lift the heavy cover
that bushel basket type of cover
we are hiding under.
It is what we are all called to do –
To be Bushel Basket lifters
And pedal picker uppers.
To help each other!
To be there…
Even if it is just to help someone cry
because no one cries the wrong way.

It is a call we all have within
to be that Encourager
That light enhancer.
That helps with picking up the pieces
And why?
Because
We have all been there
Under that bushel basket of life’s unfair covers
We all know what it is like…
Losing daisy pedals of hope
Hiding our light, our gifts…
Life is just not fair

Sometimes it is just easier to hide, ignore,
to be left alone to somehow find peace, rest or relief.
But to suffer alone only suffocates our life.
We are not alone.
There is always someone looking for us
Because…
Jesus loves us too much to leave us there
God our Father calls for us to come out of our Adam and Eve solution
Of playing “Hide and Seek
AS God our Father Calls out
“Come out, come out wherever you are?”

But we don’t want to…
Because
HE might see us
and ask us for something
we don’t want to do
or let go of.

We’ve become too used to hiding, too comfortable
maybe even too complacent?
But God doesn’t see it that way.
He wants our light to shine.
He needs our light to shine…
if He is to save the world.
For you see we are all pieces of God’s great design of life
and like a great puzzle
The picture of life would not be complete
without each of us playing our part!
The missing piece is hiding and needs to be found.

So, in your prayers today
Remember me
and all of us bushel basket Christians
who from time to time
Think that
by hiding under the basket weaving of pedals and troubles
we will solve or heal or make
whatever is out there
or whatever is inside here
go away.
It just doesn’t work that way.

Remember when Humpty Dumpty had her great fall
No one could put Humpty together at all…But God Can!

Because the more ridiculous it seems
The more miraculous God will make it
And we know He can
If we let Him in with hope.
So, with His light in us together we will shine through any
bushel basket trouble we may want to hide under
because if we think about it and pray about it long enough
We will come to know 3 things:
“God never leaves us”
that
“He loves the word “Impossible””
And
“That there isn’t anything together we cannot accomplish”
Because we have allowed His kingdom to come in our life
His will be done in our life
His Name to become HOLY in our life
Now as if we were in heaven…
Don’t be Surprised! Good things can happen!