Thoughts from a Random Mind

                  It’s a funny thing about darkness and light. Darkness conceals, light reveals. Darkness can cause a beautiful plant to shrivel and die. Light causes it to bloom and grow, reaching out toward the sun. The sun nourishes and replenishes. Darkness causes things to shut down. God created both light and darkness. We sleep at night when it is dark (except for areas in the far north where it stays light or dark for 6 months at a time.) We go about our lives in the light.

            What is normal and what is abnormal? It would seem to us to be abnormal to not have sun light for 6 months straight, but those that live there find it to be normal. I would suggest people can get used to just about anything if they need to. If they can’t they make life alterations. I would submit to you that everyone has their own definition of normal and I’ll bet you won’t find any two that are exactly the same. God’s brand of normal is found in the Bible. It’s the only true, fair, just, evenly distributed plan for living in existence. It is consistent just as God is the only constant in a world of inconsistency. Just as God never changes, so his word doesn’t change either. Those who find his plan to be restrictive would consider it abnormal, rather than normal. What is comfortable to them has been established as their normal, whether it truly is or not. 

            Living in the light of God’s plan creates a new normal for all who would choose to follow along. Free will gives you the option to follow or stay behind in your own prefab set of normalcy. That version of normal is what we refer to as our ‘comfort zone’ … the place where we can exist stress free without the concerns of life weighing us down. Think of it as a ‘man cave’ or whatever a woman would call the equivalent space. In the end, what is truly set up as normal will overshadow everything around us and we will learn to accept it even as we are accepted. Praise the name of the Lord and seek to settle into his brand of normal and be free of the clutter and clamor of this crazy, dysfunctional, sin-filled world of which we are temporary residents. Until next time, walk with the King and be a blessing! rlkeller