Vaya Con Dios...

When I was a teenager, there was a musical group called "Vaya Con Dios" I loved her sultry, mournful songs. One of them was titled 'heading for a fall' and I loved it! those were my goth days...ah vida! anyway I found out(from reading a Ludlum book) that it meant "go with God"
For a while I pondered why a group titled, "Go with God" will sing about falls and heartbreaks, etc, didn't make any sense to me, but the truth is, God never promised us a smooth journey, He promised an expected end.
So when you get a dream, a vision, an inspiration from God, don't despair when it seems as if there are many obstacles on your path to achieving it, think about this, when Gabriel (the angel in the bible, mind you!) appeared to Mary, he didn't say, "oh hail Mary, the one who will conceive by the holy spirit and your son will be tortured and you will watch him hang like a common criminal.." no he said instead, "Hail thou art highly favored, the Lord is with thee, Blessed art thou among women...Behold you shall conceive in thy womb and you will bring forth a child..."  there was no mention of mangers and birthing in a shed, no, or even death on the cross, not at all!
Because God is the Beginning and the End, those are the parts that matter to God! How do I know?
He said, "the glory of the latter days shall be greater than the former" No mention of the middle. Because He thinks you should be confident enough to know that if you start and He finishes, whatever you face to get to the end should not faze you.
I don't know who I'm taking to church today, but wherever you are, in whatever situation you find yourself today, know for a surety that the end will be better! dust yourself up and keep trying.
The difference between a sinner and a saint is not just the spelling or the halo that people attribute to saints, its the fact that a saint will fall down, but he/she will get back up again, while a sinner falls and stays down. The bible says that "a righteous man will fall seven times and will rise seven times"
Don't stay down, pick yourself up, dust your clothes and keep going.
Know that if you don't give up, or give in for that matter, God will keep going with you, as long as you don't quit, He wont either!
So I think that musical group was right in singing about "heading for a fall" because in life you will fall, the journey will not be smooth and uneventful, but the end is bright and colorful and beyond your expectations. Don't give up, instead I say to you now, "Vaya con Dios!"
Ciao!