I’m Melting.
For so many years the man had climbed to the top of mountains thinking that would get him closer to the one who created him. He fought and worried and worked his way over great obstacles that made it seem so right to claim his place on the peaks that overlooked the valleys below. He thought when he read of great men and women in history, who’d made their mark, that overcoming meant reaching the top of the mountain.
But as the man grew in age and his physical eyesight began to fade, his spiritual vision started to clear. As he stood there on the top of the mountain he found himself alone. Yes, he had scaled many insurmountable odds to get to this place. True, he had given much to make it to this particular mountain peak. Imagine his surprise when he got to the top only to hear the one who had created him say “I must increase which means you must decrease.”
Our world teaches us that we must take our place in history. Our culture says in order to be someone we must make a mark that is memorable. But how can that be if once the mark is made true success means we must disappear? How do I explain to my son’s, my friends and even myself that the true measure of success is when I am never thought of again?
As I read these words I feel something start to change deep in my soul. Truth has a way of tingling that sometimes resembles fear. Yet, in the slight trembling that accompanies this new sensation a new cell structure is being created that is foreign to my emotions. I wonder that this is not the beginning of peace. Not, the peace politicians or world leaders speak of but the peace that God says goes beyond understanding.
Maybe the Wicked Witch of the West said it best in the Wizard of Oz: I’m Melting.
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This reminds me somewhat of ‘Hindsfeet on High Places’ and how the main character so desperately wants the Shepherd to take her to the high places. He took her on the journey and made her able to get there (the high places). When she got there and was willing to sacrifice all of herself for Him,trusting Him, relying on Him, she died. But in her new life in Him she was able to leap with him from the high places to the Valleys and back again. The high places ceased to matter. It was about the Shepherd. Not quite the same but it reminded me of that.
I like this, Rick…I see it as a measure of maturity and growth. Well written…It’s really about all of us. I so desperately want to welcome “melting” for the sake of His glory being a real part of who I am becoming.
Knowing things seems like a one way street in some ways. Once you have learned about something it is hard to put it out of your mind. It is liberating to have the truth but it can imprison you if something must be done about it. I guess that is why they say “ignorance is bliss”. I fear the more you learn about the darkside of politics the more pressure you find is pulling you in to make things right. To be pivotal or irrelevant to how the future unfolds….it is everyones choice. If politics has affected you in a significant way it drags you in. You have to fight your way out of it to achieve a state of peace within. That is how it has been for me. I do not feel irrelevant. For those who believe I am and laugh I just think “ignorance is bliss”. I am a little jealous of those who are ignorant, though, because I sacrificed what was most precious to me to do what I had to. I regret that sacrifice. It was not worth it. Given another chance I would have stayed with my wife and just said “Go ahead you crooks-just do it-make my history into a parking lot” Anyway, most of us try to have our cake and eat it to so I will just always have to dream she will be mine again someday. But I know you are still praying about that and it gives me hope. God likes you Rick.
Another thing-she looks almost exactly like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz. So much that I cannot watch that movie. Makes me too sad.