The World Goes On

I was watching a movie star today on TV when I heard her say the world goes on even when I want to get off for a while. She had just lost her father not to long ago and wanted to stop what she was doing and spend some time grieving her lost, but her lifestyle did not give her the opportunity to do so.
No matter what goes on in your life, the world does not pause and wait for you to catch up. When trials come upon you such as death, heartache, betrayals, sickness and any other hardships we tend to look at others and not comprehend why they are so lively. Can't they see that I'm hurting? Stop, look at me I need to be comforted! When we see people from day to day we may never know what is going on inside of them and we very seldom stop to ask what it is. We don't know how many of them are ready to jump off this twirling world.

The lost of a loved one often propels us to this state of mind. The sorrow of everyday living is personified to us through the death of a significant person in our lives. It causes us to stop and take inventory of our own life. Sorrow and grief take on a new life and we begin to look at the decisions we have made that have a significant impact on us and those who live in our world. We look at the "what ifs."
We begin to weave a cocoon around our grief and feel as though no one understands where we are. This is when we want the world to stop so that we can get off for just a little while.

Day to day happenings still go on such as you have a job to go to, they only give you so many days off to grieve and then you must return and perform as if you never had a lost of any kind. You received the cards and flowers and the comforting phrases, but life had to go on. After a couple of weeks everyone expects life to return to normalcy. The world goes on in spite of what you are feeling or going through.

The world goes on whether you are happy or sad. We all have days that we wish we could stop the rotation. When we are happy, we want to stop the world on its axis so that the feeling will never go away. We want to bask in the goodness of the moment. When we are sad we want to stop get off, feel better, stop being responsible for a short time, then hop back on. But, we know that this is not going to happen as the world still goes on either way.

Because the world goes on no matter which way things happen, we must learn to cope with the different situations that may crop up in our lives. One way to cope is to have a grounding factor in your life that never changes. Now you say to yourself that there is nothing in this life that never changes. There is only this one thing that never changes and that is the love of Jesus and how He'll always love you. This love will always be available to you if you choose to accept it and even if this world goes on without you the love of Jesus never stops for you get to live with Him forever once you have left this world.

Seek Him now while He may be found. The world only offers temporary solutions to life's ups and downs. Yes the world goes on with or without us. Make your time here count by becoming a child of God. Accept Jesus as your personal savior and become a part of His kingdom which transcends this world as it goes on.