I
was driving and singing
along
to Avicii’s “Wake Me Up.”
I
have been through enough tough times
to
understand the line that says,
“So
wake me up when it's all over.”
It’s
not my philosophy, but I get it.
I was struck by the next line though:
“When I'm wiser and I'm older.”
“When I'm wiser and I'm older.”
Oh Lord, can these please go together!
“When
I’m older” is inevitable.
“When
I’m wiser” not so much.
And
what do we really have if we don’t
take
all that we have been through and
gain
from it a heart of wisdom?
It's called wasted time, wasted pain,
wasted
tears, wasted years.
I’m
not big on waste.
The
older we get, the more we can see
the
debris laying around from living life.
Sometimes
relationships don’t work out.
Sometimes
dreams die.
Sometimes
failure seems final.
We
don’t always know how to move forward.
But
we know there is no other option.
So
we boil things down to what we know:
He
never leaves us. Ever. (Heb 13:5)
He
is helping us grow to be more like Him. (Eph 4:15)
He
is always about love. Always. (Phil 1:9)
So
as hard things come as hard things do,
I
have this wealth of experience to draw from.
In
this thing, You stand with me.
In
this thing, You cause me to grow.
In
this thing, You help me love.
So, older and wiser go
together by grace
and our willingness to
move forward with Him.
I understand those wake-me-up lyrics;
I have felt that way myself.
But my prayer today is that through it all,
I am awake and fully
present for every moment
that I am allowed the
privilege of breathing.
At any given point in our
stories,
we have the power to say,
“This will end with me knowing
how
to love just a little bit
more.”
When I’m older AND I’m
wiser…
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