I can’t explain why.

It’s been a good weekend.

Warm weather.  Birthday celebrations.  Work completed.

My little corner of the world has been feeling a-okay.

But I know that’s not a universal feeling.

And I know it hasn’t always been true for me.

And I’m sure it hasn’t always been true for you either.

I sort of feel like a Southern Baptist minister right now, standing behind a wooden pulpit on a red-carpeted stage.

But I’m going to type this anyway.

There’s a post I wrote more than a year ago.

And for some reason, I think I need to repost it today.

Here’s the link.

And below is the post itself cut and pasted.

That’s all, really.

(Should I ask everyone to bow their head and close their eyes and raise their hands, nobody’s looking but me?)

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Easy Resolve.

The quick fix.

The no-hassle solution.

The simple way out.

Do these exist?

I just want one situation in my life – one impossible situation in my life – to have an easy resolve.

(I don’t even care which problem, really.  Pick any of them.)

Kind of like a Get Out of Jail Free card in Monopoly.

One easy resolve.

And I just slap that orange card down and say, “there.”

Resolved.

Easy.

Does anything work like that?

37 years of life tells me the answer.

No.

No, nothing works like that.

Problems do not have quick fixes.

Issues are not speedily mended.

Solutions do not materialize out of the air.

There is no easy resolve button.

Because the truth that I keep smacking up against

is that

it is in the waiting

it is in the struggle

it is in the mess

that we face our weakness

and are forced to rely on the strength of arms stronger than our own.

This isn’t a new song I’m singing here.

This isn’t a new idea.

This is not a new lesson.

It just seems to be one that I have to keep repeating to learn.

The easy resolve does not appear because

the point

is not the problem at hand that I wish was resolved.

Instead

the point

is

to tear my eyes away from the situation

and all my ideas of solutions

and fix my thoughts

and pin my hopes

to a God

who promises to provide

despite the status quo of my status quo.