Stumbling Blocks

 

Have you ever really thought about how often we are "stumbling blocks" for others? Perhaps we let our negativity about some aspect of life tarnish another's joy. Perhaps we "steal joy" from someone when we are critical of how they do something or even "where" they are in life. In earthly ways we judge "success" and sometimes when someone isn't "successful" by earthly measures (money, house, great job) then we count them "out of the race." The real question is, should it be a race at all?  Let's face it....none of it's going with us. What if we looked at success in a different way, one that is more spiritual in nature and doesn't require winners and losers.

 

 

What if we looked at success as how many people we help, inspire, nurture, befriend, uplift, comfort etc.

 

"Jesus said to his disciples: "Things that cause people to stumble are bound to come, but woe to anyone through whom they come." Luke 17:1

This reminds me of a sermon today about being "in the pit." I want to save that musing for another day but stumbling blocks (which have been on my mind a lot lately) and pits are quite similar. They are places in life where things aren't where we would like them to be. Things that bring us down, things that cause us to lose our way and stray from the path that God has set before us.

Traveling on the path of life sometimes we get lost, we take detours, we come to dead ends, we run out of gas or we just stop along the way at a crossroads not sure which way to turn. Along the way do we find people that clear the tangled overgrown brambles from our path or do we find people that roll boulders onto the well worn path?  When you run out of gas who do you have to fill your tank? 
Are you a tank filler for others? 

 

Hugs to all of you. May you find people in life to pull the tangled weeds from your path, to fill your tank, and uplift you in the joy of life. There is one that is always there to do so, may you find peace in Him even if others let you down.

 

I'll be back soon with another musing....perhaps the one about the pits or maybe one about the knock on the door, or who knows, maybe I'll go off in some whole other direction. You just never know, I follow where I am led, and allow my musings to be my own personal spiritual quest.