A Mouse Caught in the Headlights

The day didn’t totally end up the way I had foreseen it but, Father, it was a good one. Thank You for guidance and also for the safety of myself and fellow drivers, as well. May our time this evening be productive. Amen.

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Very early this morning, right after I had turned on my first road to pick up kids on my first route a little field mouse skirted across the road, caught in the beams of my headlights.
Now I have no idea what goes through a mouse’s tiny little brain when a 15-ton yellow behemoth is bearing down on it but I would think there may have been a few droppings left in its path!
Don’t we feel that way sometimes? We are going our merry way when – BAM – something huge and overwhelming comes busting around the corner. Just in the last few days, my life has intersected with a child struggling with a devastating division in their family, an adult grandchild trying to grasp the passing of much-loved grandmother, and a parent despairing the distance between themselves and their children – partly due to their choices and partly due to things beyond their control. And there are many others…
Life can be brutal and often there is absolutely nothing we can do but try our best to get out of the way before we are crushed under its overwhelming weight.
In these situations, how often to we hunker down, bracing for the inevitable and honestly thinking that we have no choice but to bear it all alone.
Last night, I enjoyed some quality time with a few fellow pastors. Our leader shared a video clip of an excellent speaker and one thing that stuck in my mind was the speaker’s reference to Jesus’ statement in Matthew 11:29-30,
Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me [following Me as My disciple], for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest (renewal, blessed quiet) for your souls. For My yoke is easy [to bear] and My burden is light.” (AMP)
I wish I could remember more specifics of what he shared but the one thing I came away with was the fact the Jesus never means for us to bear it all alone. In the midst of the overwhelming weightiness of life doesn’t rest…and renewal…and blessed quiet for our souls, sound wonderful? It may sound unattainable but truly…it isn’t. Remember this is Jesus speaking when He says, “For My yoke is easy [to bear] and My burden is light.”
We cannot avoid life. But we most definitely can choose with Whom we go through it. Amen!

Sept 25^th, 2019, Wed, 7:44 pm