It’s a Hoover kind of week

Some things in life just suck…they suck like a big giant Hoover Canister Vacuum! They suck like the vacuum on the sit-com that sucks up the hamster or the parakeet. They suck like the time I sucked up the frayed end of a throw carpet and unraveled half the carpet before I could get the vacuum turned off. Things, people, circumstances they can suck the joy and peace right out of lives! Right now I can feel the tug of the vacuum cleaner nozzle on the back of my neck!

Here is my list of sucky things…

Snotty teenagers that keep making stupid decisions or worse can't make a decision

Waiting….I don't care what you're waiting for, waiting sucks

Being separated from those we love

Broken relationships

Cars that keep breaking down

Being overweight- nobody likes being the fat chick; I don't care how old you are

Being in a rut

Not having a maid

Being the victim of someone else's stupidity

This is not a complete list. My list varies from day to day. It's been a long week. I am not typically a negative person. Am I allowed as a Christian to say out loud that things suck? Am I exhibiting lack of faith or a lack of spirituality to acknowledge there are things in my life that get me down? I don't think so. I believe God knows and understands the suckiness of life. Jesus tells us "Come to me all who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest." (Matt. 11:28) Jesus is talking of our spiritual condition- being burdened by our sin and separation from God but I know we can also go to Jesus to find peace in the midst of the sucky things of life. My flesh wants to wallow in self pity and doubt that things will ever get better. The cruel reality is that some things don't ever get better. BUT I don't walk in separation from God I walk as a child of God. I do have peace and rest available to me. So I sit here feeling the tug of the worries of life but I have assurance that I'm not that hamster it will not kill me!