It's so easy...

...to feel overwhelmed.
...to forget to call home.
...to feel worthless.
...to feel unbeautiful.
...to believe lies.
...to work so hard and not know why.
...to look forward so much you never see your now.
...to know God is watching you but sin anyways.
...to look to your Father and feel ashamed.

It's so hard...

...to trust God has it all under control.
...to remember to let the people you love know it.
...to feel valuable.
...to feel beautiful.
...to know why the truth is true, and say it.
...to see the end of everything.
...to live in the moment and not be irresponsible of the future.
...to say no, even if nobody is watching.
...to look to your Father and know you are somehow loved anyways.

The world has been turned upon its head and what is rightside up is completely screwy now and for all the ease of our perceptions we see nothing at all. Having eyes we cannot see and having ears we cannot understand, for those who worship them become like them. The Pharisees had chosen something good, the law of God was to be observed, meditated on...it was good. But it was not Good, and when something good becomes priority over Good, suddenly that thing worth pursuing becomes our idol and our perceptions turn upside down and we have become like the image of our God and not like our God Himself and just as an image cannot properly see, neither can we. It is so easy to build and altar to something good and forget God while we try to seek Him. It is so hard to see God when we are worshipping an image. It is so hard to clear our eyes, but then we see God, and in seeing it is so easy...

...to trust God has it all under control.