Recently a lady I am following got onto her social media for her regularly scheduled program and said: I have no clue what I should be talking to you ladies about. Therefore the topic of today is “I don’t know” But she obeyed the still small voice in her head anyway, and came online. And boy, was she on fire!
She proceeded to encourage us all to stand our ground in whatever it is that we are going through at the moment. “Because,” she stated, “You don’t know why you are going through what you are going through, but going through battles, makes you stronger. Period. Case in point.”
Usually when I hear these types of things my mind goes immediately to: what classifies as a battle? Difficult scenarios like depression, anxiety, life’s uncertainties surely classify as a battle, right? But what about subtle things, things we usually don’t pay mind to them because ‘we don’t have time’. For example, the inner voice telling you that you are not good enough. Which you brush aside as not important and continue on, even though you know it will continue to get louder. Or seeing that one of your children is an introvert who is struggling to make friends. And pretends that it’s not important and that he’s fine. Are those battles too?
For me they all classify as battles. And while writing the list a food-for-thought came up in my mind. Does death classify as a battle? Death of a loved one for example? Now that I’ve come to know Jesus better, I no longer classify death as a battle. It’s a release from this earth for the spirit to continue into eternity. For many it’s a sad occasion because you will miss that person, of course! But it’s also great because that person has now graduated into another level – and I bet that the battles we know here on earth, become that much smaller [or even better: non existent] when we leave this planet. So not a battle in my book!
Anyway – the reason for this post. A friend confirmed the “I don’t know” statement yesterday over ice cream. And this morning, that’s all that’s playing over and over in my head. There is SO MUCH we don’t know! Do I know how this day is gonna play out? Nope. Do I know if I’ll go swimming tomorrow? Nope. Actually. What DO I know? I don’t know that either!
What about you? What do you, or don’t you know?
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