Gravity and Grace

This weekend my wife and I watched the movie “Gravity,” a film that would more appropriately be titled “90 Minutes of Sandra Bullock Not Catching a Break.”  Things seem to go from bad to worse to worse to worse to worse.  The movie was good, but the plot was simple: in space, no one can hear you get hosed.

Sometimes we feel that our lives are like that.  We call out to God, but He doesn’t seem to hear, let alone answer.  Everything we do seems meaningless, and everything that happens to us seems to push us in the opposite direction of where we want to go.  We feel abandoned by God in a life where it seems to be getting harder and harder to breathe.

Those are the movements when we need God’s extra grace to make it through.  God is stretching our faith, giving us a chance to let go of all those other things and cling to Him.

Even though we can’t see Him

Even though we can’t seem to hear from Him

Even though it feels like He is a million miles away and we are all alone

He wants us to know that He is right there, walking with us through this difficult time.  Loving us enough to allow the painful situations to bring us closer to Him and make us better people in the process.