Cake & Ice Cream

2It is natural to want everything, now.  This approach applies to everything in our lives.  Ideally, I want a car that has the performance of the ultimate Corvette, gets forty plus miles for every gallon, and comfortably seats five.  I know I will never get this, but I still find myself on an unending quest.  The process does not end with cars. 
 
I want to lose weight while not changing my basic lifestyle.  I know this does not make sense.  Yet the desire is there.  I cannot seem to find the time, so no additional exercise except when it happens.  I am overwhelmed, so no change in my rest (or lack of) or in my diet (healthy options).  In spite of the overwhelming odds, I still anticipate dropping a few pounds.  It is as if I am in a fight.  The reality is quite different.  “Doom to you who fight your Maker—you're a pot at odds with the potter!  Does clay talk back to the potter: ‘What are you doing?  What clumsy fingers!’”  (Isaiah 45.9)  In the back of my mind, I know the truth. 
 
The depths that this form of humanness extends in my life are endless.  Choices, actions, and priorities form in my heart only to find a very different expression in my journey.  In my heart, I know the truth yet I want to believe everything will be ok.  In my soul, I can feel the dissonance but I love to hear the harmony found only in my imagination. 
 
Peace begins when we let our souls and the life we live collide.  We, I need to experience reality.  I need to know that God is the only answer that makes sense.  I need to understand how far I am from my ideal.  I must grapple with today’s blues.  It is in this context that God’s gifts make sense.  Compassion has a home in my life.  Mercy is a blanket I need to protect me from the cold.  Acceptance will provide a foundation that allows me to walk, even run.