Walk in Wisdom

Not too long ago everything was hazy. I was walking and falling and crawling and standing but everything was, well, foggy. The mist came sudden and quick, unexpected like a midnight phone call. And it stayed longer than it was welcome.

But one year ago I sat in church on a Sunday morning and smack in the middle of the fog I heard these words like car lights flashing on and off, calling me home:

What will you do in the midst of the mist of your life?

The Bible says we’re each but a mist, here today and gone tomorrow in the grand scheme of it all. Our lives are important, but they’re each just one sentence in the bigger story. And so what will I do with the mist of my life, and what will I do when the glasses of life have fogged over?

I ask myself this question often, just over one year later. I’ve said before that we must hold onto what we know to be true in the light when we cannot see it in the dark. But many months later I’m learning that we need to speak truth to our souls in the light because

And so how then shall we live? How then are we to walk and stumble and get back up again?

It is simply this: walk in wisdom, live in love.

If we’ve only got so much time left – and that’s the case – and if none of us knows just how much time it is – and that’s also true – then maybe what matters is not all that we do but all that we are. Could it be that it’s less about how well we can see through the blurry mist and more about how we keep on walking through?

Maybe it’s a lot less about seeing the light at the end of the tunnel than it is trusting the sun will rise and the Son is Light. Maybe it’s continuing to shuffle one step forward even if we fall two steps back. Maybe it is simply saying that no matter what tomorrow holds, we know the One who holds our tomorrows, and so while all may not be whole, all is still well.

We are but a mist, and so often it seems we live in a mist, but in the midst of our mist may we walk in wisdom and live in love.