Couches are for healing.

     Couches are for healing. It’s true, my RA last year had a couch that worked marvelous miracles, and I’m thinking that my couch now has those some qualities. There has been a lot of healing in the past year, in the past three weeks, in the past twelve hours, and it is happening right now. In a previous blog post I wrote about right before I left for Chicago, one year ago, and how that opposed how this year felt. And I have learned one very important lessons since I arrived: Ministry is hard and it never gets easy.

     I sat and dwelled over these things while on my couch - hence the healing magic :). As I was struggling through some of this the other night, my friend said, “Things are difficult east of Eden.” The Fall touches everything, there is nothing on this planet that has gone by without being affected and mangled by the consequences of our sin. But, through the grace of God, the image of Him is still there. We look at the world and we either choose to look at the mangled fallen image or we choose to find the face of God. It is a constant battle, flesh and spirit. 

“For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.” -Gal. 5:17

     Since the fall, ministry is hard. Since the fall, life is difficult. But there is grace, there is redemption, there is still an imprint left of the original creator. I choose to look at ministry, recognize that it is difficult; but I also choose to recognize that people were created in the image of God. If we look long enough, we can see that image. I choose to look at life and see the beauty amidst the evil. We were created for worship, everything in creation was created for worship. 

     So, as I sit on my couch, and heal, I choose to find redemption in this pain, I choose to find joy in my homework load, I choose to see His finger print of grace on every part of my life. And I begin to heal from the Fall.