Things I Don't Understand....

[TJ Clayton]

So, last night I quoted my grandfather in saying, "If you're going to serve God, the largest compartment in your brain better be marked 'Things I don't understand.'"  This morning I was listening to Coldplay's song Things I Don't Understand.  I found not only the title but the lyrics to be totally appropriate for what a lot of us are going through right now.  I know Coldplay isn't a Christian group and what they say isn't the gospel, but I think they hit this one right on the head.  Check out the lyrics below and let us know what you think.

Things I don't Understand

by Coldplay

How tides control the sea
And what becomes of me
How little things can slip out of your hands
How often people change
No two remain the same
Why things don't always turn out as you plan

And I can't decide
All my wrong from right
All my day from night
All my dark from light
But I love this life

How infinite is space
And who decides your fate
Why everything will dissolve into sand
How to avoid defeat
Where truth and fiction meet
Why nothing ever turns out as you plan

These are things that I don't understand
Yeah these are things that I don't understand

And I can't decide
All my wrong from right
All my day from night
All my dark from light
But I love this life

[Ashley Churn]

Those lyrics certainly do hit the nail on the head for sure!! And as I learned this morning about another tragic situation (the father of a girl I went to high school with who is now in ICU with a similar 'mystery virus' as little Jaxton that I told you guys about last week), I came upon a devotion that my friend Whitney had posted on her son's Caringbridge site. (Her son is 2 years old and fighting nueroblastoma cancer at St. Jude's in Memphis). :

Sunday, February 28, 2010 9:14 PM, CST

"Yet I am with you always, holding your right hand. I am fully aware of your situation, and I will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able to bear."

"I am leading you, step by step, through your life. Hold My hand in trusting dependence, letting Me guide you through this day. Your future looks uncertain and feels flimsy--even precarious. That is how it should be. Secret things belong to the Lord, and future things are secret things. When you try to figure out the future, you are grasping at things that are Mine. This, like all forms of worry, is and act of rebellion: doubting My promises to care for you. Whenever you find yourself worrying about the future, repent and return to Me. I will show you the next step forward, and the one after that, and the one after that."