The Gift of Life is not optional
The foray into life is never of a newborn's will. The gift of life is not optional.
Babes are born, they hold no choice of existence - nor can they divide good from evil, today from tomorrow.
This brief passage across terra-firma contains far more of the unseen than the seen. And, misunderstandings shade the un-reckoned life:
- difficulties arrive that defy reasonable explanation
- decisions are made only on available evidence
- directions are chosen hurriedly - and,
- events occur that are truly misread by you or others.
At various times life jolts as if the blind leads the blind.
Life mimics a billiard ball careening into inflexible cushions, cannoned by an invisible, irresistible and persistent malevolence. Which way do I turn 'the victim' cries?
But, in many older and proven lives there exists a comforting nod, or an unspoken 'well done' agreement from experience. At odd times bare rewards to a correct action or congratulation for a good result arrives. Maybe a brief understanding wink is dropped at random?
Jeremiah will always be associated with lament, this is a 'wage' for a prophet. He spoke to a recalcitrant Judah, 'hell-bent' on exile. (Circa 590 BC, See Jeremiah 18:15)
This is what the good Lord says:
'Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is and walk in it, and you will find peace for your soul'. (Jeremiah 6:16)#
#NB - the peace arrives in the soul. This is so because at death the spirit (breath) is withdrawn, the body decays but the soul lives forever.