For a little while …

I woke this morning thinking of P who has gone through a barrage of criticism that has been unkind and unjust. It seems like it has come from many only because their voices are loud but as always it comes from only a few. I pray that this morning he and his wife hold on. I pray they realise this is momentary. It’s just for a little while.

To the patient waking with their terminal diagnosis and another day of pain …. It’s just for a little while.

To the lover whose heart is broken and you wonder if you will love again … it’s just for a little while.

To the employee who has to go to work in a toxic atmosphere … it’s just for a little while.

Everywhere in the world people wake to a day of grief, a day of difficulty and all kinds of trials. This may just be you. If it is then this first letter of Peter is for you.

“In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials.”  (! Peter 1 v 6)

Some just have to suffer but it’s momentary, it’s not for long, it’s just for a little while.

You may just have to go through the struggle.

This life may throw rocks at you and no matter how much you pray they just may not stop.

You may just have to keep going when all you want to do is give up.

Even if the world puts you on a cross it doesn’t mean you are the one who is defeated.

It’s just for a little while. “In a little while/This hurt will hurt no more” (U2 lyric)

It’s the heart of Christianity. We are people of the ‘little while’.