Strength for today

I enjoy writing about life.  About its highs and lows.  About its joys and troubles.  I like to bring my world's experiences to you who read these meanderings, and see if you might relate.  I like to read responses or comments that also assure that I am in good company when life throws it's challenges my way!  Once in a great while we chance upon a friend or significant other who cares enough to provide a loyal support when we ride the roller coaster called life!  

Our corners are weathered to a smooth, protective outside, yet inside a fragile voice cries out for another to listen and hear what we have so carefully kept deep within the silent, hard walls.  When that hand works its way beneath us and we feel the solidity, love and lift of their heart melding with ours, something begins to happen.  The thick layers of stone begin to bend and become pliable.  Our heart draws ever so close to that layer beneath us as it cradles our brokenness and pain.  Life starts to seep into us and smiles form across our face that had once showed lines of heartache.  It slowly becomes easier to see sunlight beyond the crust that had shadowed us.  

How we need each other!  God has placed Himself inside each of us who ask and receive.  He has provided His strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow.  He decided that He would touch lives - through one another!  When we become that support for another and acknowledge His faithfulness and power, it is as if He is coming to the rescue through His hand-made instruments.  We often underestimate what He can do through His created children!


Comments

Linda(non-registered)
I love your transparency, Kim. Your words are so true. I have perhaps not learned as much as I should have on this earth, but of a few things I am certain. Life is just a fleeting test. Suffering is redemptive in the end. All that will matter when we loook back on our lives is how much we loved. It's good to share our journey with each other.
Kim(non-registered)
My my.....I am flattered - and humbled, Jerry. Thanks for responding ever so beautifully. You add to this blog....and add strength to me! Big blessings.....
Jerry Richards(non-registered)
Kim, I so enjoy reading your reflections on the life you have lived......and are still living. Your grasp of the subtleties of our existence here on Earth is so insightful. We do all build up a shell of protection. We have no choice...it is a survival instinct that kicks in automatically. We all fight our own fights, often in silence, often unseen by even those closest to us. To have someone reach out to us.....when they are under no obligation to do so....is simultaneously humbling and inspiring. To have a lifeline thrown our direction, a source of light and hope, is a Godsend....literally. For another human being to consciously and willingly put themselves "in the line of fire" and take some of the hits that were aimed squarely at us.......wow! Just wow. We feel their support....their encouragement...their empathy....and their caring hearts. We know we are not in it alone. We know that, step for step, someone else is walking our walk with us. When they don't have to. I'm can think of nothing that would be more pleasing to God than to see his children allow themselves to be vessels to pour out his love and grace onto others. You have captured the essence of this, Kim, and you are so accurate in your understanding and appreciation of these situations. Thank you, as always, for sharing your thoughts and heart with all of us.
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"Every song that I write comes from my own personal experience.  i believe the role of an artist is to interpret reality through a system of beliefs and a long-term seeking of truth, in your own life and in the world at large."  Dan Folgelberg

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