So Much More Than Me.

This title here, from a song off Goo Goo Dolls' Gutterflower album, grows more appropriate to me everyday. The line just struck me as I was reading Johnny's lyric. Yeah, the world is so much more than me. (Though I'm sure Mr. Rzeznik had his own, very different, story behind this lyric.) Coming to peace with the fact there is something more than me is the only way I've been able to survive with any sanity. Some would maybe call this the "peace that passes understanding," because it's hard to explain - or understand - when you have none. The hard luck, relationship struggles, personal disasters, community trauma, they can take something away from us. Swift like a sudden summer storm, these things of life weaken us. They steal our confidence. We lose all hope. We suddenly don't know what has happened to ourselves. We are gone.

And still something happens to reignite us. I believe it is God who has a hand in our life. Whether He set the world a go once before we were formed and has left it alone since, or He continues to watch over us, I don't know sometimes. Either way, the world is His. The world is bigger than me. We are all connected because we are all making sense of our humanness. It's all we know. We are all we know.