Words of songs floated through my mind this morning. Stop the world and let me off. Make the world go away, and get it off my shoulders. And other such words.
Why? I don’t know. (IDK, as tech speak would say.)
Have you ever reached the point where you want to leave your current life and style? Shut everything down, load up your belongings (leaving a lot of them behind), and head out to points far away on a compass rose.
This happens when life is weighty, the larder is empty, and everything seems to pile on at once.
Maybe my subconscious was telling me something! Life is weighty right now. It seems the cupboard is bare. And I’m looking at only what’s necessary to head for the hills and a different season of life.
As kids, we used to enjoy rides that twirled round and round. Merry Go Round. You held on for dear life as someone twirls it faster and faster. If you don’t get sick and call for a halt, the centrifugal force may swing you outward. Let loose with the hands!! Watch out, ground! Here I come! Or, your legs swing out beyond the edge, and you sweep the twirler away!
Sometimes. I equate this force to that which one yearns for so as to walk away from the out-of-control feeling you have that threatens your safety.
When learning to pilot a small single-engine plane, my instructor taught me never give up. You kept working on figuring a way out of the problem. No Pilot Ever Gives Up!
I take that to heart,
A lesson learned so long ago,
When in command…
Never Give Up!
When being swung by forces
Don’t you dare give up!
Someone’s counting on you!
It’s the spoken quote from Churchill, “Never, never, never give up.”
It’s the author of Hebrews that reminds me all the time:
Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be satisfied with what you have. For God has said, “I will never leave you; I will never abandon you.” Let us be bold, then, and say, “The Lord is my helper, I will not be afraid. What can anyone do to me?”
(Hebrews 13:5-6 GNB)
It’s the story from God to Noah…
Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And the LORD smelled a soothing aroma. Then the LORD said in His heart, “I will never again curse the ground for man’s sake, although the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done. “While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, Cold and heat, Winter and summer, And day and night Shall not cease.”
(Genesis 8:20-22 NKJV)
But it’s also the warning end to life’s story…
Some day, that last breath will exit,
Your life will come to a halt
And your next inhalation will be elsewhere.
I don’t want to give up too soon.
It’s an old song. Sing the refrain with me. Just A Little While.
Just a little while to stay here,
Just a little while to wait,
Just a little while to labor
In the path that’s always straight,
Just a little more of troubles,
In this low and sinful state,
Then we’ll enter Heaven’s portals,
Sweeping through the pearly gates.
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