precious

the last couple of days i spoke to my students about philippians 4:13 (for i can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength) and how God doesn't promise to make things easy for us. He IS promising strength but not easy.

we can talk about that some other time.

the point of writing right now is that i just watched the movie Precious and i realized the gravity of what i was actually "preaching." if you don't know the premise of the movie or anything about it i'll need to fill you in real quick.

Precious, the main character, is a 16 year old girl who's had two children after her father raped her on separate occasions. her mother abuses her. she has no education. she is also extremely obese. essentially, if i were her, all i'd pray for was something EASY! the weight of her struggle is far beyond anything i can really comprehend, yet i know it's not outside of reality. and so i'm sitting here mulling over the fact that if i ever believed that the strength of Jesus is enough (or more than enough) i better believe it outside of my petty little problems.

the strength of Jesus is enough to help me recover from a bad day... but is it enough for girls like Precious?

i believe it is. and i believe He's worth it. it just becomes that much more real when i remember that the world is a mess. one big mess. and the only hope is Jesus.

no happiness here. just some hope. some precious, precious hope.