Rise Above

“There ain’t no troubles that we can’t rise above, with a handful of faith and a heart full of love.” – Tim McGraw

Life can be difficult walking through the desert times of our lives. We all go through them…illness, job loss, relational tensions, or the loss of a loved one, yet they will not go on forever. We have hope that this too is a season, one that will give way into another. When have we learned the most, been stretched and grown the most? For me it is within the desert seasons. There is goodness that can be gained from experiencing these seasons, always something to be thankful for and often much more than we realize until we can turn around and look back. A handful of faith and a heart full of love will certainly lead us to rise above as in the quote from Tim. I am reminded of Ecclesiastes and a time for everything under the sun. Spring always comes, her beauty reaching high up into the heavens cannot be contained. Love and beauty and faith conquering all.

A Time for Everything

There is a time for everything,

and a season for every activity under the heavens:

a time to be born and a time to die,

a time to plant and a time to uproot,

a time to kill and a time to heal,

a time to tear down and a time to build,

a time to weep and a time to laugh,

a time to mourn and a time to dance,

a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,

a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,

a time to search and a time to give up,

a time to keep and a time to throw away,

a time to tear and a time to mend,

a time to be silent and a time to speak,

a time to love and a time to hate,

a time for war and a time for peace.