Common Struggles

By Carried Away • May 23rd, 2008 • Category: Artists in Residence

Greetings my fellow friends…

Christine here again. You know, we just came back from a few shows this past weekend, and there has been something that I have been thinking about while on the road. You wanna know what it is? Okay well it seems that everywhere that we go, no matter what country, province, state, city, town, church, whatever the case may be, everyone is going through something. You may be thinking to yourself, ‘Okay, Chris, that is a little general…what exactly do you mean?’

Well, as I have been discovering from hearing many stories from fans, pastors, I guess just people in general, we all have our struggles that we are going through. I mean, I heard stories of peoples’ parents divorcing, loved ones being sick, cutting, suicide and so many other things. It really breaks my heart hearing many of the stories.

At the same time though it makes me think how blessed we really are. I mean think about it, we don’t have to do this whole life thing on our own. We have the body of Christ cheering us on, praying for us. But it doesn’t stop there! No, no, no my friend. Jesus Christ is like our biggest supporter ever!! He’s saying, “Okay, Christine, I know how hard this is, but lets take this step by step together and just hold my hand. I will bring you through this. You have victory in ME!!” How cool is that?

Okay, so this is my struggle right now. It’s seriously been driving me crazy!! I am finding out I am terribly bad at time management and also terribly bad with my finances. Even now as I confessed that out loud I get stressed out about it. The thing is I know it’s God’s time and not mine; it’s God’s money and not mine. I can say that until I’m blue in the face but I have to start living it out!! Today I had to go and buy a calendar for Carried Away, and I was looking at the day planners for myself so I can start managing my time better. First of all I couldn’t find a pretty looking planner in the place. Second of all I totally got freaked out thinking I don’t know if I’m going to be even able to use this properly. Does that make sense? It does in my head. I guess what I’m trying to say is I got all flustered cause I knew how much I had to write down, and I didn’t know where to even start. It sounds kinda silly now that I’m typing it all out. Well anyways, I guess that’s it. I’ll keep you all updated how it all works out. Peace.

In Christ,
Christine

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