In this crazy world there's an enormous distinction between good times and bad, between sorrow and joy. But in the eyes of God, they are never separated.  Where there is pain there is healing.  Where there is mourning, there is dancing. Where there is poverty, there is the kingdom.
Henri Nouwen (Catholic priest, theologian, writer  and philosopher)


I hear a lonely cry of a Mourning Dove outside my window.  It is such a soulful sound of longing and missing.  I want to answer him back just so he doesn't feel alone.  Then I remind myself that he is probably not longing for a greying blonde of the human persuasion. It will just mean more rejection for me lol.

Seriously... one could listen to his song of grief and perceive it in two ways.  One could feel the loneliness, the loss, the pain in his call or one could feel the joy, the healing, the dancing and the kingdom that is carried in every note. 

As Nouwen, above, writes God sees no distinction between sorrow and joy and either should we.  For the dove, where there is loneliness, there will soon  be connection. 

Contrast breeds its opposite.  That's the way life works.  With our human senses we see those contrasting colours so acutely and see such an "enormous distinction" between them.  We focus on that distinction.  Where God, I believe, sees it all intertwined together in a beautiful tapestry of textures that make up a life. 

What we ask for we receive in the same glorious moment of our request.  There is no time or space or separation. There is no distinction anywhere but in our minds.

So as I listen to his beautiful song, I remind myself of that and I smile at just how perfect it all is.

All is well I my world.