Warbly Moons

This one will make sense, trust me.

I was driving down my hill last night and I looked up to see an awkward little moon. It was in that in-between stage of sort of 3/4 but not quite full either. It looked all wrong and kind of warbly, like someone had reached up and pinched a ball of white cookie dough in the sky. I laughed at the moon that night.

Sometimes life feels off or our situation looks a little warbly and funny. We all have those moments when things don't feel quite right. Well, here's a thought: just like we know that the moon isn't actually warbly and funny-shaped, God knows that our lives are not warbly either. They are just as He created them to be, and there will be phases -- I'm good at this analogy thing-- where things will be crooked and the shadows cast will seem so much darker than other times. Friends, we can take comfort that it is all temporary, that it will right itself (and un-right itself) again.

Why is that comforting? I don't know, really. I was wondering why so much of our lives is spent maintaining our lives, fixing them, "dealing" with them. Life is high maintenance! And then I'm humbled because, again, I'm focusing on me. That is when the cyclical nature of life flies of it's axis; when we take our eyes off of our warbly problem and focus on our God.