Overheard recently… “It isn’t an adventure until there is trouble.”
I pondered that one for a while. Something rings true about it, though I wish it weren’t so. The best stories have resolved tension, a problem overcome, struggling hearts enduring, forging ahead despite the dark clouds. There wouldn’t be a book written or a movie made without trouble.
A friend of mine feels like his life is moving backward. The one step he takes forward seems to end in ten the other way. After touring a new care facility together, I feel depressed with him today.
All I can say is that the sun will rise tomorrow. Bleak can be fleeting. New choices do spring up. The denouement may have a surprisingly good ending. The heart knows its own sorrow. But God chases away shadows…