As the song goes, "It's my party, and I'll cry if I want to ..."
You can cry right along ...if you both agree it's right. After all, they say misery loves company.
If you ask, "Do you want to be healthy, or would you rather have cancer ...or some other dreadful disease?" Well, I think most everyone wants to be healthy.
But, the fact is, we all aren't.
I think everyone would want to come from a healthy family ...but, we all don't.
I'd think we'd all like to have a healthy God ...and we do, yet what good is it if we believe in a lie, or only part of what is true.
We can't often change our physical health, but we can improve our spiritual health ...which often help our physical health.
Often our family would also improve if we improve ourselves, and our perspective.
And our God can do great things in our life ...especially when we look to Him as the Whom led us from Creation and willing for us to be led through His Son, Jesus, to an everlasting paradise.
Yes, this should be our hope. And sometimes misery brings us away from contentment, closer to knowing our desire for God ...as it is said that children often don't understand what they want, and that is no less true for us children of God.
We don't want misery for us, or for others ...and especially not for our children. God doesn't want it for His children either.
Yet, sometimes we turn away from help, and sort of heap it on ourselves ...while we give ourselves false comfort by joining others in heaping it on those who don't agree.
The attitude is:
Anyone who does not cater,
Does not understand, or is just a hater.
Forget you all, don't care if I don't see you later.
Maybe you think you got it all together, but I'm the slick operator.
But, we all know that misery loves company ...but, that is actually stated incorrectly. Love is not the reason misery grows. It actually should say that misery thrives on company ...yet, it often leaves you alone without it.
Love is not like a plant. Though it does better with nourishment and a healthy environment, love nourishes itself, yet does well as a ground cover ...it cover much ground, and grows in and around everything. This may be poetic, but the truth is that love is many things ...but, in truth, love is God. And God is love.
