A Balloon On A Breeze

August 15, 2004 | Link To Us | Index | This sermon is for your spiritual edification and to spread a little hope and cheer. Song of Solomon 4:16

Hello everybody. It is time to clap your hands and rejoice because it is a new day and you are happy to be alive.

The Lord is your shepherd and restoreth your soul with the waters. You are glad to be alive. You feel happy that the world did not explode overnight. You know that another day has started and even though that day may be a Monday, you may still feel happy that another five day work week has started and one more weekend has bit the dust.

But then again maybe not. Nice try though, hunh. Mondays are not that bad. At least you get to see your buddies again at work. No not the ones that are calling you pathetic or are sneering at you about what happened to you last week near the water cooler. No, you are not pathetic, but sometimes you may have heard it because you are not perfect. Nobody is. Not your stepmonster, and not even the little old lady that lives down the street who claimed to be Elvis' love interest.

The interesting thing about life is that there is nothing that is certain. I know there are a lot of people that wish things were more certain so there would be more control. But in order for that to happen there would be no risk, hence no challenges, and very little inspiration. And we wouldn't want that because it is too predictable like a mystery novel where you read the last page first and know pretty much, throughout the book, what is going to happen.

Do you ever feel like you are up in a balloon basket watching the world below you wondering what all those ants (people) are doing below? Do they look like a million mice running around on a fast train to nowhere? Or maybe you just see a quiet countryside down below or a desert so desolate that even the Gila Monsters look like fleas on a landscape totally void of human existence.

But maybe that is where you would rather be right now sipping a cold one, kicking back as the upcurrents are settling underneath you like a campfire of a cold breeze lifting you up as if on angels wings.

Sometimes you have to think about what you are thankful for. One thing I am thankful for is the fact that I received my Bachelors degree in Marketing a little over a week ago. I had been working on it for over twenty years and after a lot of on-again-off-again schooling I finally received the degree. I guess it was one of those things I wasn't real ambitious about until the last year where I dug in my heels and studied harder than I ever had.

If I sound like I am boasting, I apologize for that, but sometimes it just feels good to boast about something. There are so many things in life that we leave unfinished. We have put them aside for various reasons, some of them out of necessity, but often it is because we get a little lazy and may not care as much as we need to. Responsibility to oneself then needs to be kicked into overdrive so that we can take from the experience a sense of accomplishment and need to tell ourselves and the rest of the world that "we did it."

That is what I thought about in the last year and because of this conviction I went after my degree with a vengeance and graduated. So don't you let anybody ever tell you that you can't do it. Don't let the bullies of this world tell you that you are not worthy. Quite often it is them that are not worthy. Instead look to God for help and ask Him to give you the inspiration you need to put into the perspiration of life. Otherwise you may slip back into a life of complacency and unsureness and there is more to life than thinking about your shortcomings.

With God, all things are possible. I know, you have probably heard that statement more than once in your life. But it is true. He can help you more than you ever thought possible. He can help you, as He did me, to get to your goals and accomplish them with the grace and stamina that you have deep inside of you no matter what you may think to the contrary. So instead of always looking down at the millions of mice scurrying about, look out of your balloon basket at the possibilities for beneficial opportunities and say, "I can do this with the help of God."

Prayer: Dear Lord, so many times it is so easy to fall into the bag of complacency because I give up for various reasons that permeate my very existence. Help me to grow beyond those reasons and come up with ones that are more conducive to an existence that is fill of possibilities. And thank you for all your many blessings. Amen.

Benediction: Now, Lord, Bless us in our daily lives. Help us to smell the roses whenever possible, to shine our light on those less fortunate than us, and lead us in the path we should go. For you are the light that keeps our path well lit. Help us to follow it, until we meet you, in a land where milk and honey abound, a place where our most wonderful dreams are fulfilled. Amen.

Hi, my name is Bryan, a messenger of hope who would love to hear from you. God Bless.

© 2004 Bryan Hill