Nobody has it wired

Becoming and being an adult in the modern world is very complex - We're All Trying to Figure it Out, doggone it!

Some people have it wired or think they have it wired, but really they don't. Some people feel more confident about it but it doesn't mean they have the answer. Some people feel very ignorant but actually have more answers than they think they have.

The best answer for me is to realize that we're all actually in this together, literally. We're all in this society/world together. We're all trying to master the complexities of our world and live in it comfortably.

It's like any craft or endeavor that is complex, like carving a statue, or building a wall, or painting a picture, or running a marathon or writing a poem. Each endeavor has many tiny complexities that are evident only once you get far enough advanced into it to notice or care about all the little things that need to be done. In carving or painting, the turn of a wrist or angle of a finger, or the amount of primary colors in a color palette, the texture of clay being worked or stone being chipped away, all are noticed differently when you are attempting to create something. And that attention is not wasted, it is invested in the process of creating.

Taking one small area of an endeavor and trying to give it energy so you can see and understand the complexities takes courage and commitment and a lot of other skills. Skills to master a craft can be challenging, like not paying attention to a whole bunch of other complexities while you're trying to do this one thing.

That one thing can be as lowly as changing a lightbulb, which admittedly doesn't take a great deal of skill, or it can be as grand as deciding to go to war, which takes countless little mini-conclusions on the part of the decider and his whole population. And in between there are many many many skills we learn to be better at.

And at the heart of them all is still, we're all trying to figure things out, we're all in it together.

God helps us. He can help us. If we let Him in. We can actually make it without God, but it may not feel right. With Him, it can feel right.

In the meantime, we're all trying to figure it out. All of us. Nobody has it wired. Nobody has it all down cold.

I want to bless my friends that aren't comfortable in their journey of figuring things out. I hope and pray that they will come to see that they can live here with us and join us on this strange, marvelous, curious and sometimes painful journey.