Life is so daily

Charles Swindoll is one of the authors I like. I read this tonight and would like to share here - trusing God in dailyness of living -

When I was only a boy, the Swindolls occasionally enjoyed a family reunion at my grandfather's bay cottage near the Gulf in deep South Texas. Since the crowds were so large, we'd hire the same man each time to help with the cooking. His name was Coats. His skin was as black as a cast-iron skillet and his quick smile and quaint comments are a lasting memory to me. I remember standing near coats one evening at sunset, watching him smear the sauce on the chunks of beef cooking slowly over a pit of coals. He was telling me about his life, which had been etched with trouble and tragedy. He rubbed his big, leathery hand through my white hair as he knelt down to my height and said:

Little Charles - the hardest thing about life is that it's so daily.

A simple way to say it, but what could be more true? Life is so daily. The tests that come like a flash and last no longer than a dash seldom do more than bring a brief crash. But the marathons - the relentless, incessant, persistent, continual tests that won't go away - ah, these are the ones that bruise but build character.

If finding God's way in the suddenness of storms makes our faith grow broad, then trusting God's wisdom in the "dailyness" of living makes it grow deep. And strong.