Dave D’Angelo brought us the first of a two-part series entitled, “A Beautiful Mess.” He talked about how we all experience messes in life and how, in fact, most of us are probably dealing with a mess in some area right now. The whole idea is that in the end, with God at work, the mess can become beautiful.
Here are some of his scuds:
- The messes of life never make their way into the perfect little pictures we dream of in our lives.
- No matter who you are, you’re facing a mess right now.
- The beauty that we find in our messes is actually the truth about ourselves.
- There’s a difference between joy and happiness. Happiness is an emotion. Joy is a state of being.
- If you’re facing a mess and you don’t see any way that it could ever be beautiful, hold on. You just don’t have the vision to see it yet.
- Proximity creates opportunity. What you get close to determines what you’ll get in to.
- The more we assign blame and point the finger at others, the less joy we experience.
- A better question to ask than, “why?” is, “What can I learn from this?”
Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy. For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing. James 1:2-4 NLT
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