Life is Not Fair


It's not! It just isn't. One moment you are sitting on a flower, soaking up the sun, enjoying a lovely spring day, and in the next moment a windshield is careening at you at 60 miles per hour... or at least it would be if you were a monarch butterfly who happened to venture over one of the many highways right next to that lovely park. It's not fare! Something so beautiful shouldn't have to die, and yet, it does. Just like us. We get sick, we get wounded, we fall, we fail, we die.


I do not wish to sound depressing or morbid. On the contrary. My goal is simple. It is to say that though this life is not fair there is hope. There is life beyond this one. That is what I hold on to when I hear about something tragic in my life or the lives of others.


The average monarch butterfly lifespan is only eight months. It is rather short, but it can do a lot in that time. It can fly thousands of miles, pollinate thousands of flowers, and even take a moment to reproduce themselves, continuing the God's grand circle of life.


With the power of Christ love we have hope that this isn't it. Even if it's not fair, even if things fall or fail, we have hope. Jesus is our hope. I write this with tears in my eyes, knowing that a dear friend of mine has lost her father to cancer, but one thing I know, from knowing his daughter, to hearing the testimony of his life, He HAD HOPE, and now he is with the LORD Jesus Christ. Praise God.


O Lord, you alone are my hope. I've trusted you, O LORD, from childhood. Psalm 71:5