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If you're an old music lover--old, and a music lover, or a lover of
old music--you'll recognize the name Karen Carpenter and the song,
Rainy Days and Mondays (always get me down). Probably the best
female vocalist of the 60's and 70's, she died in 1983 at age
thirty-two from heart failure, a complication from anorexia nervosa.
I was listening to her CD today. There's a line in Rainy Days that
goes, "I always run to the one who loves me." The thought came to
mind, But suppose there's nobody there to run to on those rainy
days?
Her solution is in her hit, I Just Fall In Love Again. But I can
tell you that after twenty-five years as a marriage and family
therapist more people are hurt in these kinds of falls than any
other.
Is this where you are? One fall too many? Have you considered that
perhaps you need to get acquainted with a loving Father before you
find a loving mate--a Father who knows something about love? I'm
not saying that God is a substitute for a flesh-and-blood mate. But
I am saying that your problems with rainy days and Mondays may have
something to do with your relationship with the Father, first and
foremost.
Perhaps you've been running your life too long by yourself. How
about letting this loving Father into your life to give you some
direction? Jesus Christ came to show the way. He said, "I am The
Way, The Truth and The Life. No man comes to the Father except by
Me" (John 14:6).
Perhaps He has the cure for rainy days and Mondays.
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