Reality Check

You don’t even know what tomorrow will bring–what your life will be! For you are like smoke that appears for a little while, then vanishes.
James 4:14

I’m sitting here prepping the grill for some burger patties. I notice the smoke was blowing this way one moment then that way the next. This verse came to mind and I thought about how frustrated we can become by trying to force things to be the way we want them or expect them to be.

We should probably learn to relax and let the wind direct us where it will. It’s not lost on me that the Holy Spirit is sometimes represented as a wind.

This article was first published on May 2, 2015 and was recovered using AI and web.archive.org.