Tiny Devotional for Saturday, 10/24/20

 A great GOOD MORNING to all my friends and neighbors in Internet Land! And to family members who dropped by, here’s to a peaceful and pain-tolerant day!

 For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again,
But the wicked stumble in time of calamity.
Proverbs 24:16, NASB


 Gentle Reader, I have few guarantees for you, but one of them is this: you WILL fall. 

Whether as a result of your own missteps, or because one you love has tripped you with their calamities: you WILL fall.

Falling is not now, and never was, the issue. We THINK it is, at the time. We look at our possessions, strewn about on the ground, broken eggs mixed with freshly laundered linens, and think: “Oh, no! I’ve done it again! How could I be so stupid!” We blame ourselves, when the truth is that the falls are inevitable. Some are because we are yet ignorant of some Truth, others because we have been dealt a bad hand, and some because lightning strikes on its’ own terms.   

The issue ALWAYS has been: are we going to get back up? Are we going to learn something new, are we going to accept that the world isn’t built with our ease and comfort in mind? Or, are we going to grovel in the dirt, indulge in self-hatred because we have to wash the linens once more, and vow to never set ourselves up for failure again by never attempting success?

Gentle Reader, I believe that you who make a point of reading these words already have found this truth. I teach you nothing; I only want to tell you that you have done a good job. Well done, indeed!

The wicked, on the other hand: a different outcome.

Peace be on your household.


Comments

  1. RustyGunnerOctober 24, 2020 at 11:29 AM

    “So you’re beaten to earth? Well well, what’s that?
    Come up with a smiling face.
    It’s nothing against you to fall down flat,
    But to lie there — that’s disgrace.
    The harder you’re thrown, why the higher you bounce;
    Be proud of your blackened eye!
    It isn’t the fact that you’re licked that counts,
    But how did you fight — and why?

    — from “How Did You Die?” by Edmund Vance Cooke

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