Mud puddles!

Today morning as I watching Baby Tv with my younger one I saw a programne where they were showing kids playing in mud puddles.
MUD PUDDLES! My thoughts started drifting to my childhood when I too have played in mud puddles wearing those long rayon gumboots...stirring the mud and water..which soon settles down... splashing and getting stained with the settled mud begins again..being all icky and yucky!
Most of us are past the age of playing in the mud. But the truth is, we’re still stuck in the mud puddles of life right now. If u have noticed our lives get stirred up just like the mud puddle, and dirt and silt of fear disappointment, busyness, bitterness and unforgiveness, empty relationships, worry and so on cover us thickly. 
Many a time our life becomes cloudy and whirling and murky, and it feels like things will never be normal again.
But as time passes, jus like how the mud settles in the water in the mud puddle.. stillness and stasis is restored in our life too. Though it may not end up with the pieces settling exactly where they were before.. but thats the beauty of life right?
This gives us the opportunity to start all over again...to re-discover..be delighted and surprised all over again.

I could see God's blessing in the mud puddle.

Ironically as I grew up, initially I was often drawn to these mud puddles. It’s kind of fun to dabble in the dirt, throw off inhibitions, and paint my face like brave warrior princesses I secretly want to be. But then the mud starts to dry and I can’t get out. It’s uncomfortable and I am stained. These same mud puddles became uncomfortable and repulsive. Just like some of the circumstances in my life that I find myself in.  Some of the “mud puddles” in my life feel very threatening...some are like giant sink holes..and some dont seem to make sense at all.  But like I said what if there are blessings in these “mud puddles” of life?
Now I don't find these mud puddles uncomfortable....neither do I want to avoid them coz i don't want to miss out on all that God has in store for me.. all because I am too focused on the stickiness and yuckyness of these“mud puddles”.

I am sure there is joy to be had and thanks to be given when life is clear and much less muddy. My prayer for you and for me is to be encouraged to find the blessings in the midst of the “mud puddles”; when life is a little less…clear.

So if you too are languishing in a mud puddle of life, like me... trust god and believe You are NOT stuck. And you are NOT defined by any mud.