Sally Brown: I couldn't decide if I wanted marble fudge, chocolate, rocky road, vanilla or butter pecan...I finally decided to try marble fudge...then I had to choose between a plain cone or a sugar cone...I decided on the sugar cone...so what happened? I went out the door, and dropped the whole thing on the sidewalk! Don't tell me my life isn't a Shakespearean tragedy!Charlie Brown: I won't.
At BookClub last weekend, we talked about choices in life, God's guidance in those, and troubles notwithstanding. Scintillating discussion as usual, especially on something that would have been close to heart to everyone at some point or the other. Should I choose this job or the other? To live in this country or that? Why does God seem to open up many choices sometimes and remain silent at other times? Why then, when it seemed so clear that He opened the road one way, when the rainbow covenant had already been written across the sky, that one still gets the uncomfortable sensation that perhaps this is "not the centre of God's Will" after all, as one had been so sure about at first?
It is a precious thing to have Peace as spoken of in the Bible. But that itself seems to have several shades of meaning. Is the Peace of God the same as having Peace in God or Peace with God. Is the something we should seek for or is it something granted to us, somewhat like Faith?
More questions than answers i think. But I think we could all do with a little Peanutty humour and tell ourselves that life's problems are not nearly as often tragic as we think they are. There's almost always a surprising blessing in the circumstance, Honey in the Rock. And as God has so often shown, He is far far more interested in our characters than in our circumstances.
