oh the memories that this sign brings to my brutha presbyterian. =) but thats not the story i'm going to tell. the other night i was laying on a couch directly in front of this sign and it was fairly late, i was very tired and my mind read TRIAl not TRAIL. i thought it was very interesting and it made me think. i thought a lot about how it would seem so much easier if there was just a sign that said trial this way or up ahead. a warning sign so you'd know to turn around and go the other way or to be ready for it. but it doesn't work like that. partially why trials are trials is because you don't know when they're going to happen and the point is that you're supposed to always be ready and when you aren't its your own fault for making it even harder then it would have been. but at the same time i know that we have trials when we are ready and when we aren't because we are supposed to be tried and tested. it makes us stronger, better and always humbles us. sometimes our trials are obvious, open, and people can see what is happening, other times it is a personal thing that no one ever knows about. regardless trials are blessings that just need to be refined. they help us. they are presents, we just have to work for them just like opening them and untaping th boxes and sometimes they're taped way too much and it doesn't seem worth it, but when you finally get to whats inside and you see why you worked so hard you realize just why you had to go through it all. (present analogy brought to you by the fact that my birthday is in a mere 2.3 months. woooooooo) anyways just something to think about. progresseion progression progression. the end.
also the testament is a fantastic movie full of the spirit and just sets the tone for a great sunday.
