When Nothing Comes Together

Why do we keep doing what isn’t working?

For me, my exercise in futility started with a faulty assumption. I woke each day expecting everything to go as it should. The storm always caught me off guard. Rather than being ready for it, I was on the defensive. And found myself responding in the typical unhelpful ways.

In my life, I tried to deal with chaos one bite at a time. As long as it came in regularly spaced intervals and in small doses, I thought I could handle it. Though I tried to hold it together for many years, chaos was winning. It was causing me to lose my hope and my temper. Then it sped up, and the stakes got even higher.

I was fighting a losing game. Perhaps you are as well. But chaos isn’t playing a game. It’s playing for keeps. And it’s speeding up.

Chaos is primal. But it isn’t eternal. It didn’t always exist. The good news is that chaos didn’t get the first word nor does it get the last. Only God does. When chaos and the Creator come face-to-face, chaos blinks every time.

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