Moments

Life is not even.
It is not a journey from one point to the next,
wandering over a meadow
or a plain.
Life has moments.

Good moments,
Hard moments.

There are moments when we laugh so hard
that we cry.
There are moments when we cry so hard
that we cannot imagine laughing ever again.

There are moments when our burdens are light
lying like feathers across our shoulders.
There are moments when the stress of life
weighs us down, like lead.

There are moments when we hear God singing
deep within our souls,
Melody and harmony, dancing in bright choreography.
There are moments when God's chorus
sounds thin and far away,
as if we are listening through a glass. Eavesdropping.

There are moments of clarity
when God's will for us is seen
Magnified, as though through crystal.
There are moments of mud,
when we doubt that God
is even aware of our problems.

God plants seeds of hope
in all of our moments.
And lifts us up, like the wind.
Sometimes we fly as if soaring,
joyful and carefree,
Eagles, heavenward on His spirit.
Other times, other moments,
we are just desperately grateful
to be rescued from the ground on which we lay,
lifted into the air
and carried softly to his presence.

Many moments
One God
Planting seeds of hope in our lives,
So that we know,
though all time,
that we are His.