Gray Days

Seeking to maintain spiritual vitality and enthusiasm is not always easy on gray days, especially a week of them!  These are the days that find us too tired to pray, read the Gospels or even run the beads through our fingers.  Yet a look outside reveals that the flowers still bloom, the grass gets greener, and the leaves swell on the trees.  Something is happening even in the grayness and drizzle.  So too with us; even in these low moments of fatigue and minor depression, something is happening, something is blooming, greening or swelling within us.  We need not further our spiritual fatigue by thinking that we are in a deepening sink hole.  Without the pause provided by spiritual grayness, we could run amuck on the false notion that our upward spiral will never end. May we find refreshment in these moments when our ties to Jesus are strengthened and when we are purged of false security. Despite the grayness, may we see the birthdays that are being celebrated, the healings that are taking place, and the prayers that are being answered. Tomorrow's brighter day can happen today, if by faith we see grayness as a gift.
Bro. Rene