We Fall Apart...

 In the past couple of years we have had the privilege to glimpse into a few situations that allowed us to watch things fall apart. (Either in our own lives or others.)
 Yep, you heard me. We watched things fall apart. We were put in a situation of silence and frozen in place. All we could do is watch.

 

 We watch things fall apart and are unable to offer the correct advice. We know what could or maybe would help these people, because we have been there before. We made the same mistake and fell apart...either together or on our own, in our own ways. (The cycle of this ((sin, behavior, not following the Lord.)) is always the same, no matter the circumstances.) Even when we did try to help or offer suggestions, the person, people or situation were not open to it. They were blocked to it. Because they were walking their own walk, or even because it was a result of someone else's sin. A lot of times it isn't our pace to help. The Lord is doing His thing and it isn't our place.

 A person can only be as open to something as they are able to be. Not everyone is in the same place or even able to see a situation from any other angle than where they are. It can either be from a place of growth or maybe the Lord just doesn't want that person to see the other way.

So they become blind to it.

 More often though, we end up in these situations because of our own stupidity or we place our own blinders in place and become resistant to the wrong, or the change or the trial. We keep doing what we are doing hoping for the best and waiting for it to work the way it used to, or should, or how everyone else does it or says it should be.

The person, people or situation begins to spiral and sink.

They crack and break and fall completely apart. Shattered in pieces. A flame was lit and the whole thing burns to ash. Our hearts broke for these people and situations. I sat in tears many times and  my heart ached for them. For the loss, for the unexpected, for the lessons being learned. Sometimes when these things happen all we can do it watch, hurt along side them, cry out to God, pray and WAIT.

Then you know what happened...in each and every single one of those situations...the person, people or situation came to their knees, they sank into that pit and had nothing left to give. They sat in the ashes and stared at the pieces left behind. They realized that it wasn't their place to make things work, or at least it wouldn't work in the way that they were trying to make it, because it wasn't God's way. It wasn't the right way. It was the worlds way.

Through God's love and guidance we watch as He picked up each and everyone of these people and situations, He brushed them off and started to put them back together. He showed them how to pick up the pieces that were left and to put them back together...and even how to pack it all up, scatter it as far is east is from the west and let it go. To start a new and build again. To rebuild. To try again. To try a new way, With new habits, new skills and with new gifts! With new eyes, without the blinders. With new knowledge and without the blinders. So see the other parts and angles. To see the forest through the trees. The beauty of a new life after someone else's sin. A loving relationship that can be rebuilt among the ashes of mistakes and hate.

The fields scorched by fire produce the most plentiful crops.

The Lord wants the best for us and has GREAT things planned. No ones path looks exactly the same. No two stories are exactly the same. But He has GREAT, AMAZING BEAUTIFUL things planned for  all of us.
We just need to get out of our own way. God is the only one true guide and savior to this game we call life.

Once you reach the other side of the trial.

After you have crumbled to pieces and allowed the Lord to put you back together. Only then can you look back and see what He was truly doing. He had his hand in the entire thing. He knew what was to come, and he always will.

I was interesting to us to be able to see others going through the trials, but when it happens to us, we are also still blinded to it. Those lessons from the Lord can be hard. We just have to keep our eyes pointed to the heavens and prayer for guidance. For ourselves and for others.

At the end of it all, the BEAUTY of what He truly had planned, was so much better than what we had planned and how we were before.

What we thought, or what appeared to be things falling apart and being destroyed, was actually God making things better. Sometimes things have to break completely apart, and die, for God to create something new.  

Jeremiah 29:11New International Version (NIV)

¹¹ For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

 ~Lyndsay