The Christian life isn’t hard, it’s not even difficult, it’s impossible.
–Unknown

Wow! How cool and refreshing are those words? At times I can be walking through the day and come up against obstacles and challenges that seem overwhelming and frustrating. At the end of the day I can be brought to my knees. But how many times, like this morning, do I need to be reminded that the Christian life is impossible? My life will never be truly Christ-like and Christ-filled until I enter into His kingdom for all of eternity. Each moment in my time now is a journey toward the impossible though. That is what I am called to do as a child of God. That is what I want to do as a child of God.

The bar that Christ set is one that I race toward, leap toward, not with the expectation of being complete in His image while I walk this earth. It has been and is hard. It has been and is difficult. Christ has never described it as anything other. Through His grace and mercy, however, I have found joy in the journey and that is what I enjoy sharing. In my walk toward the impossible God is continually revealing Himself. And through each revelation little pieces of hardship and difficulty chip away. Those are the things I enjoy sharing with you and what the continued goals are for the books I have and am writing and hope to write.

I find myself this morning re-reading my own words and thinking of Lois Lowry’s book The Giver. Her book for you adults is not directly spiritual, but in many ways it parallels the journey toward being made in God’s image. The journey through the hard, the difficult, toward the impossible. The journey into the unknown. The journey of discovering life as God knows it. For example I love this scene from the book –

“Now [Jonas] became aware of an entirely new sensation: pinpricks? No, because they were soft and without pain. Tiny, cold, feather-like feelings peppered his body and face. He put out his tongue again, and caught one of the dots of cold upon it. It disappeared from his awareness instantly; but he caught another, and another. The sensation made him smile.”
– Lois Lowry, The Giver, Ch. 11

God is the giver of great gifts, like rain. Let us welcome the unfamiliar, the hard, the difficult, the impossible, that we might know Him better. Let us smile.

“Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”
— 2 Corinthians 4:16-18