Struggling Well With Life

What a good week this was, really good.  None of the issues in my life went away, nor the issues with others.  Still an ongoing sense of heaviness with the heap of hurt on so many levels, in so very many lives.  So what does living in Christ mean, what is it to struggle well with life?  Acknowledging the hard stuff, but remembering always who Christ is in the midst of it all.  Saturdays and Sundays are not always Sabbaths for a pastor, not this one anyway.  But it is this time of rest, of just being still that realigns my heart and breathes perspective. The discipline of sabbath is often overlooked, but this week the discipline brought life back into a tired, discouraged and confused man.  God has given me the freedom to feel the hurt around me, but not miss the joy of His presence in all things.