Traveling home from Wichita again listening to KJIL yestetday, I got this wisdom for you. It came in the form of Blessing Offor’s Brighter Days.
“I know there’s gonna be some brighter days; I swear that love will find you in your pain”
I find myself sometimes hoping, even praying for some of those, Brighter Days. I doubt I’m alone.
“Oh, ashes fall from burning dreams; Oh, never lived through times like these; Oh, if you’re trying hard to breathe in the dark”
Have your dreams maybe not materialized?
“Oh, if your screams don’t make a sound; Oh, if your walls are crashing down; Oh, if your heart just cries too loud all the time”
We as Christians are not immune to calamity. His lyrics speak to that.
Then I read Blessing’s story. Born in Nigeria blind in one eye. At age six his parents sent him to America for medical treatment, at age ten he lost the sight in his other eye. And yet he sings “…there’s gonna be a brighter day.”
I could almost feel my own day brighten.
“I really think Christianity thrives under pressure,” he said. “There’s a kind of beauty, there’s an extra kind of humility that you walk around with when you’re in a situation where you are not in power. It reminds you that earthly power isn’t the point. In the New Testament, the Church was never in power, but yet man did that thing grow.”
He shares this in his testimony.
Now, go on and have “a brighter” day.