The Upside of Down

There is anguish all around us.

In our own back yard people are losing their jobs, losing their homes, losing their hope. The ugly smell of fear wafts through the cracks in the wall between “us and them” and we know that it might not be long before we join their ranks.

The pitch black of night is not a place we ever thought we would be. Even the day’s are dark. Despite the frenzied pitch of political campigns of “hope” and “change,” despite happy faces on the leaders and the admonishins of the preachers, we are still down.

But there is an upside to the down

David, hiding out in a dark cave was similarly hurting.

Hunted like a wild dog, his friends had left him, his King wanted him dead, and his God seem far away.

But then a question tugged at his heart,
“Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me?”

there is a reason to press on
“Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation.”

The updside to down is that it causes us to look to the things that are important.