Donny Darko is Real

The monsters underneath our beds late at night are really not the monsters we should be scared of.

My mom once told me a very wise and honest thing, “Ephraim, after you graduate college, please know that the world is a very dark, and evil place.”

It is this comment that we find the unfathomable knowledge of this world.

We must be weary of those who set up the stage to look like the most amazing person, a person could ever want to believe. Unfortunately, the more we grow up the more easier it is to be more susceptible to becoming more jaded about life.

Lets leave this one segment of sad information for something that will be more practical and useful.

In life for us to transition from one stage to the next we will end up facing many life crises (cf. Erik Erikson). In each stage we transition, we might end up feeling stuck, or even frustrated. It in those moments that we must embrace the ultimate pillars of life- truth and grace.

Although the world can be so dark, disappointing and depressing, we have to allow balance, moderation, and variety to enter the equation.

I really believe that it is through the difficult moments of our lives that we truly realize some of the most important wisdoms we will ever find throughout our lives. Although it sucks in the moments, we learn so much more about ourselves, and what we can truly handle. It is being able to take the sucky crappy situations, and be able to turn them into positive, that allow the soft, joyous parts of our hearts live longer. Then becoming men and women who are gumpy old bags looking back on life with regrets, more disappointments, and in a storm of unhappiness.

I think it was once best said from a Christian artist I heard, “What if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise?”