There's Got to be Rhythm: Learn to Celebrate

           This is the final step in getting good rhythm into your life.  Learning to celebrate and mourn well is the capstone of a life with rhythm.  We humans often have trouble celebrating (especially the small “stuff”), and we certainly aren’t very well (equipped or otherwise) at mourning.  Hey, we’re generally pretty good at mourning our own personal stuff, often to the extreme that others would call it being on the pity pot and not wanting to get off of it. 

For the sake of this discussion, celebrating refers to the small stuff which really isn’t small stuff—though we tend to treat it that way:

·         like every single time we catch ourselves standing tall against temptation

·         standing up for Jesus in a situation when we otherwise might not,

·         when we suddenly realize we just had one of those “Yea God” moments

·         when it dawns on us that God’s hand was just in that situation we faced

·         etc.

If we learn to celebrate the small stuff in our lives, we will soon find ourselves being able to really celebrate what is going on in the lives of others around us.  As we learn to celebrate our lives, we learn to celebrate the lives of others.

One of the hardest times for us is when it is time to mourn—for and with others.  We often just don’t know what to say or do.  That said, we appreciate it deeply when we are in a bad situation and another person comes to us with compassion oozing out of him and says “I just want you to know that I’m here for you in your difficult time” or something honest like that.  All we need to do to mourn well is to be open and honest as we acknowledge and walk with others in their dark times.

Bottom Line Thought:  Celebrating life and mourning well is yet another tool we can use to achieve that good rhythm in our lives.  Do you celebrate?  Do you mourn well?