Pot Of Gold

Have you ever been trapped in a totally hopeless situation?  And you knew there was no way out…you knew you were domed…as you sank lower and lower you notice “Titanic” written on your ticket.     

Yes!  I’ve been there and done that.  What started out to be a nice walk in the park turned into a disaster.  I was looking for that proverbial pot of gold but I was sinking in a material world of secular quicksand…the harder I struggle the deeper I sunk.  The fun had turned into a fight…a fight I was loosing.  In a moment of desperation I called on the God that I had been hiding from for most of my life.  I made a conscious decision to try it his way.   After all I had tried everything else…after all what did I have to loose?   Basically it got down to giving up and giving in…giving in to the fact that I could not handle the problems that life threw at me…not by myself.   

In hindsight it all seems very clear…but at the time...not so much.  At the time there was no joy in my life. At the time all I knew I was sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Nothing changed yet everything changed.  All I did was change my attitude about God.  I discover that I could not change anything else or anybody else but I could change myself.

Slowly everything got better.  Slowly peace and joy trickled back into my life.

I now know there is a pot of gold waiting for me at the end of the rainbow.  I just need to stay on the right path and keep following that rainbow. 

This God stuff is a mystery, a paradox, an unbelievable, unexplainable concept…but it is the only thing that makes sense in this out of control, crazy world.

You don’t have to be a bad person to need God…even good people need God.

So I’m going to keep following Jesus, my rainbow, to my pot of gold, God.

Now that I am gray and old,

Thanks for getting me out of the cold.

Thanks for all that you have told.

Thanks for being my pot of gold.

Amen