Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. -Romans 12:2, NIV
I don’t want to be stuck in the same rut day…after day…after day. Waking up at the same stupid hour each day. Doing the same stupid job over and over again. Eating the same stupid stuff for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. This is not where I wanted to be! This is not where God wants me to be!
I once asked God to surprise me every day. Not that I wasn’t testing Him, mind you; I just wanted something different to happen each day. Doesn’t the Bible say, “His mercies are new every morning”, or somewhere along those lines? Not that I was walking through doubt, mind you –although, even the strongest person walk through fine lines sometimes (please not, I said sometimes). And lo, He did –every time I see the Sun. Every time I see the moon. Every time I look at a father playing with his children. Every time I see a mother nurturing her children the only way mothers know how to nurture her children.
It’s too much grayscale. It’s an eyesore. It’s Ryugyong. My heart’s upset. My mind’s upset. It makes me want to give up. Ah, well: if you can’t beat ‘em…
And then I look at a little flower blooming through the cracks of the sidewalk. It looks so pretty. It beats all the stupid grayscale floating around me. So shiny. So brilliant. So….So God-
Honk! Honk! Honk!
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Mira, canto’e…. Expletive. Expletive. Expletive. And I yell like the rest.
Like I said, I need to be renewed…