The Next Nexus

There is a crossing of paths in life where the good meets the bad, the happy meets the sad. But wherever you are and whatever you do, whatever happens is a nexus between you and God.

I was reminded of this fact as my wife and I drove across the upper peninsula of Michigan yesterday, journeying to a family reunion.

Back home a young friend of mine was in labor, delivering a beautiful baby girl, while down the hall at the same hospital a father was informed that HIS baby in the NICU had died. Happy and sad at the same time, in the same place.

My wife and I just happened to meet up with our daughter and her husband part way through our trip. We had lunch together. It was a happy time. Yet I was reminded of similar trips with MY parents. They are both gone from us. They will not be at the family reunion. A sad time.

Then, sitting at the breakfast table this morning, our niece told us abut an upcoming unplanned job transition. She would be leaving a job she loved and her job family, which she also loved. Truly a sad and uncertain time in her life. What would the future bring? Only God knows.

The nexus between the happy and the sad, known and unknown, is perfectly laid out in the story of Jesus Christ. The happy side is that God cared enough for mankind that He sent his Son to us, to live and then to die - a nexus for sure. But then there was a "second nexus" as Jesus rose from the dead and ascended into heaven. A nexus between sad and happy.

No matter what you are going through in life there will be good and bad, happy and sad. But with Christ, there will always be that second nexus. And for that we give God thanks and praise.

I'm not sure what you are going through.