Giant

I heard something intriguing today. About giants. Not quite the literal kind but the figurative kind. The giants we have in our lives that kind of paralyze us with fear and stand in the way of our freedom so to speak.

So the man I heard this from was talking about a specific, literal giant. The famous Goliath of the Bible. A lot of people may say that this is one of those stories parallel to one told by the Brothers Grimm or Mother Goose but for me I see the reality in that story and for the first time today I heard it in a way I had never heard it before.

I saw myself as the David and my issue with Flower Bandit as the giant. Also my issue with my job situation come December as another giant. And my parents' going home soon as another giant. I have all these figurative giants in my life right now and I have been reacting a lot like the army of Israel did in front of Goliath.

Ok, I am not going to go all spiritual on you but I have a point. That army just focused on the giant and because they were taking him in in all his 9 foot whatever glory with his huge weapons and taunting jeers, they were petrified of him. They stared and did nothing because they saw how huge he was in relation to them and so they wet their pants instead. Good plan.

Then along comes David ben Jesse and he looks at Goliath, acknowledging that he is there and then he looks to his God and sees Goliath in relation to God and he does not seem so intimidating afterall.

Ok, I realize I am sounding preachy now but I have been behaving rather like the Israeli army with the giants in my life. I am looking at the problems looming in my life and I am wetting my pants because they seem so much bigger than me. Well duh they are bigger than me.....they're giants. But I am Christian. Not a particularly good one all the time, but I am one regardless. I have been cowering and trembling in my little corner because I am afraid to approach or even look at my giants and yet the God I believe in is that much bigger than the giants.

My giants are complicated giants but my God dissolves the spirit of confusion.

I need to ponder a bit more on this one.