The Writer

I am so thankful for...

1. Piles of blankets

2. Waffle House

3. Music that is fresh

4. Snow Days

5. Conflict

Hoppilla

Max: All Halloween I've been running into someone I used        to know.

Penelope: This someone - she meant a lot to you?

Max: Yes, yes she did.

Penelope: What happened?

Max: I couldn't give her what she wanted.

Penelope: What did she want?

Max: To be free.

Redemption is Closure

Do we need everything to be resolved so that we may have closure? 

Or do we need to be redeemed? 

Lately my mentor and I have been learning about different women throughout history. It has been something like,

"Oh! You remind me of Beatrix Potter!" 

"Did you know this about Audrey Hepburn?" 

"You're like Julie Andrews." 

They are wonderful women whom have displayed characteristics that we seek to portray as well.

Honesty, Valiance, Hope, Perseverance, and Joy

They were terribly honest about life and who they were.
They took their lives with toast and tea.
They showed grit and resolved to make the best out of terrible times.

But something resolving...does not always bring closure.

A book that reminds me of "resolving" is Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller. I was given a copy by my friend Lula McAmis.

Donald Miller speaks of Jazz music and how he never liked it, because it did not resolve. This lack of resolution bothered Miller. He found that God was this way - he did not resolve. God did not make sense. Miller goes throughout the book speaking of how God taught him what jazz music meant. Miller ends the book by saying that the music is true and comes from the soul. The music did not have to resolve and neither did God. No matter what, it was true and an outward expression of freedom. The women mentioned in the beginning found their lives redeemed. I do not know if they were believers in the redemptive power of Christ. If their lives could be redeemed through their very stubborn character, then how much more can God do?

So, tying all these thoughts together is this statement: redemption is closure.
Life won't resolve itself.
Conflict will not end and pain will not go away.
The women who I admire were honest about their struggles and how life did not resolve itself.
The closure they found was in the redemption that their life had.
My closure is from the redemptive power of Christ.