Mental Stressin
"Everyday, it's just anotha struggle,
anotha hustle, anotha day,
Stayin outa trouble, but it seemz like
Ever since birth,
I've been cursed and whuts worse
I'm finally looking at my past,
tha truth hurts..."
-author unknown
A neighborhood child left a scribbled in notebook at our house last summer. I set it on the shelf, meaning to give it back to him next time I saw him. Well, I got to cleaning and going through things today and found it. Looked through it, chuckling over the childish markered letters scrawled across the pages. Then I found a page in the back titled in more mature lettering, "Mental Stressin". The thoughts this unknown author vented caught my attention.
Different handwriting on another page, revealed this message:
"Feeling as tho
I hit Rock Bottom
I don't give a f*** like pac
lit da glock en shot em
problemz ain't nothin new."
-author unknown
We go through our days, most of the time oblivious to the pain of those around us.
But, their pain is real. God, help us feel it and fall to our knees in desperate compassion to see You at work in their lives, not just our own.
Let's not sit in our 'ivory palaces', content with the blessings of God. Let's get out there and do something to show people there is Hope. There is Peace. There is Life. His name is Jesus.
