be okay.

yes, life requires

that you stand up, settle the score, be alert, make things right.

rise and obey Him.

pray for the strength and the grace to do so.

but, also remember to just be okay.

accept that life is messy. it isnt' and won't be perfect.

you ain't no smooth talker, no smooth walker.  you will stumble.

it's been that way since the bite into the fruit in that garden.

don't live in fear of what trials may come your way,

especially the ones that exist only in your unnecessarily worrisome mind.

don't live in fear of the trials that plague you now.

sorrows come and go.

feelings - of whatever kind - may or may not be legitimate,

but there's something better to live by.

He withholds no good thing.

remember who He is

and what these good things actually are.

fall in love with that.

and be okay.

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"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid."

-John 14:27