Inspirational

This Too Shall Pass

Posted on by Marla
Mama, why does life have to be so hard?
Why do people have to be so cruel?
Why is that when it rains it pours?
There’s trouble and hardship.
Heartaches and bad brakes…
Why Mama? Why’s life so hard?
Sweet child of mine I’ve been right where you are.
I’ve watched many a sunrise and sunset,
I’ve had my share of break ups and break downs.
I’ve gone all the way around,
Mountains and valleys, rivers and long dark paths
Why’s life got to be so hard? I too would ask…
One thing I’ve learned though.
This too shall pass…
When the darkness falls, and it looks like you can’t get up.
When you are drinking from an empty cup
When all you can do is cry, when will it end? How long will it last?
Remember, child,
This too shall pass…
Faith is not on the other side.
Now Faith is, whether we live or die.
Don’t live in the past…
You can’t go back…
Don’t live in the future…
It never arrives…
Live in the right now, take all your fears and let Jesus cast…
All your woes into the sea of forgetfulness…
Because darlin’
This too shall pass!
~Marla Shaw O’Neill May 16, 2023
My mama lived eighty-three years in this world. I’d be going through something, and I’d tell her about it and she’d always say, “This too shall pass.” I’d get so aggravated when she’d say that, but I’ve come to understand exactly what she meant. Now I treasure her words and one of these days I know I’ll be seeing her again…some things in fact many things we just don’t have any control over. But in my lifetime, I see clearly that the many things I was fearful and concerned about did in fact pass.
She’d also say, “Don’t sweat the small stuff!” Life is too short to wallow in self-pity or try to fix everyone else. Jesus said, cast all your care upon him, because he cares for you! That’s where we will find our greatest peace…when life gets hard, and you feel like giving up…Go to Jesus first and these things shall pass! Maybe not always in the way we think but when he does it, it is so much better. Life is hard, but God is good!
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. Resist him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world. But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
2 Corinthians 1:10 “And He did rescue us from mortal danger, and He will rescue us again. We have placed our confidence in Him, and He will continue to rescue us.”
Marla
I love the Lord Jesus Christ and am passionate about writing. I hope you enjoy the blog and come to visit often. Then the Lord answered me and said: “Write the vision And make it plain on tablets, That he may run who reads it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time; But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; Because it will surely come, It will not tarry. “Behold the proud, His soul is not upright in him; But the just shall live by his faith. Habakkuk 2: 2-4