Blessings… scarred uncommon pain through sorrowful joy

What would you call a blessing? Would it be a new job, winning the lottery, getting married, having a great vacation, missing that car you almost hit, not becoming pregnant before marriage, not getting caught cheating in school….. The list could be endless. I have heard many people talk of how much a certain experience was a blessing. I will never refute anyones claim to call something a blessing. Yet life can color in a deeper shade of blessings that is beyond our deepest understanding. That greater understanding is found in the midst of our sorrow.

The book of James talks about when we face trials of many kinds we are to consider them pure joy. That is not an easy lesson to learn. I have for many years of my life thought of blessings as the good things that have happened to me. Whenever I related joy to my life it was centered around times when all was calm and going well.

I have now realized that I am so blessed in the midst of my frail broken body. I can’t walk or work but I am as blessed now as I have ever been. I have seen what God can do with a wretched ragamuffin as myself. In the presence of my God all I can say is thank you and use me for your purpose in your time. My encounter with the Living God has scarred me with the passion to know fully what true blessing can be. Everything in my life is this true blessing weather it is one of the common good things or one of the uncommon cherished bad things that have happened to me.

Please take time to cherish those times of pain for it is a true blessing indeed.