Real drama is quiet and sober. This week has brought very dramatic, sober situations and I don't really want to write about them. Such situations do not need my words to disparage their gravity.
I thought today about the verses in the Bible that speak of being of a "sober mind." I've always thought passages such as the mind of the wise being in the house of mourning, referred to being somber, I realized today that is not what those verses mean. During this time of gravity my thoughts have drifted to others, to helping friends and neighbors. My mind has dwelt on the Psalms where wise men declared that God was their fortress, and their salvation. During this time I have been more joyful because the problems and situations I deal with on a daily basis are seen in their true scale, which is small and temporal.
Be of a sober mind, but rejoice in the Lord always. Those are not contradictory statements.
The Lord is my fortress. Rejoice in the Lord always. He is a God who is near.
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