So much of our life occurs within the context of the oblivious mundane.  The repetivie instances of daily life, in which we do what we do largely on autpilot.  The run of the mill things that happen each and every day, unrealized and uninspected moments flow by us without acknowledgement.  And given the limitations of the human intellect and attention span, this is as it should be.

There are other moments, much rarer moments, in which none of that is true.  These moments come to us, by what appears to be their own volition.  They come to us with a will, an energy, and an intellect all their own.  And their appearance is never sublte.  Once they arrive in grand and dramatic fashion, it is obvious that the status quo has cesased to be.  And honestly, it is clear that what was will be no more and that a new norm has arrived.  This new norm will define our context.

I would love to say that these moments are painless and enjoyable.  I would howver be guilty of dishonesty if I allowed that perception to settle in.  The truth, at least for me, is that they are difficult and painful.  More often than not they are akin to a baseball bat to the head.  As the change they bring with them in their wake is always difficult to accept and adjust to.

Rightly or wrongly, they are like a frying pan to the head.  Rightly or wrongly, watching an existing order of things pass from existence is never an easy thing much less be a participant in.  And when the source of these changes being divine, becomes known, it doesn't make it any easier to walk through.  Participating in the demise and or genocide of an order, an existance, a life never is.

Our feelings of such things notwithstanding, the change such holy frying pans betoken cannot be deterred or denied.  The event comes and works its will regardless.  Subsequently it becomes more important to accept them to understand our need or them.

This is largely because our creator knows that the real and lasting changes we need in our lives, more often than not, we cannot produce in and of ourselves.  Human beings are typically builders, we build the life our context allows and affords us.  There are just moments when our context will no longer support our growth to the next level.  When that happens usually God will launch the ICBM of change into our life.

Knowing this to be true, it falls to us to embrace the baseball bat, the frying pan, or the missile and endeavor to grasp what was removed, what remains, and what was added.  Grousing about the pain it caused does no good.  So I say, embrace the holy frying pan!  Ride the lightning as it enters our context, knowing that its all for our greater good that it came there in the first place.