All is Well

You know that feeling that you get when you have accomplished something and you can lean back and say, "ah, this is good, all is well." Well I havent yet experienced that at this present moment in the sense that I have completed some major task and feel self-satisfaction that all is well (I still have invitations to mail, 1000 piece puzzle to finish, language learning to master and of course the rest of the checklist that seems to grow longer and longer everyday). But even with this sometimes overwhelming sensation of all these things that need to be accomplished, I still feel that All is Well. Now, i am not ignorant to the fact that all is not well for many people who are suffering in varying degrees: ie, they lost their home, their job, their spouse, their children, their moral sense of courage and justice, or just their own morality. Others have lost a sense of purpose, a focal point, a silver lining. And yet, my sense of All is Well is not based on my ignorance of the massive pain that is happening to those around me, whether it be the apartment next door or the suffering person on the otherside of the world. There is still that urgency that is in me to strive to be a light, to share, to bring hope to those that feel at the depths that all is not well. And that is what I mean. All is Well doesn't boil down to an accomplishment that I've made, or that life is just perfect and peachy keen and that i am in the midst of no storms. No, by no means is this the type of All is Well that I am refering to. But the All is Well that i am refering to is that despite the storms, despite the tragedy, despite the struggle (whether that is intellectual, spiritual, emotional, physical) that at this moment I feel that All is Well, and that peace regardless of my surroundings is sure for me. Now, you made read this and think, "that isn't nice! How can you boast in such a way?!" It's not boasting, but an assurance that does not leave me ignorant to the surrounding and even internal suffering and does not leave me inactive or unwilling to help. But the All is Well is through a different perspective, in the depths of me, not that this comes from me but that is given to me by a daily audience with the Almighty. Then and only then can I truly say that All is Well.

So those are my thoughts for now. Until next time, Over and out from Over Yonder.


P.S. this picture is one of my favorites, though i didn't take it. My fiance took this photo as four of us were visiting Yellowstone National Park. A great reminder of no matter how bad we may look (or others may think that way of us) we always have one or two friends we can hang with.