Simplicity

Simplicity.
Yeah, right. When one of you finds something on this earth even close to simple, let me know.
Schedules are complicated.
Relationships are complicated.
Even the person ( and we all have one ) that we consider to be the most shallow human being known to mankind is complicated.
At the beginning of this year God kept throwing the concept of "Simplify" at me.
Ironically, life has complicated and twisted itself more than ever after He introduced me to this stranger by the name of simplify.
My dad, who I was positive was healed of cancer was found to be not as clean as we thought. Take the strongest person you know, the one person that has always been the most stable individual you know of...and picture them in a trying time of pain and weakness. Just flat out tired. In my eyes, my dad is the wisest, strongest, most passionate man of God I know. He practically hung the moon in my universe. Seeing my dad so fatigued broke me. Seeing my mother take care of him, her students, and me and my older sister even after we had moved out shattered my heart. If any woman has been through hell and kept her focus on Jesus and her head filled with everyone but herself, it's my mother.
I went through an awkward and horribly selfish phase as a teen, yet my parents continued to be the most sacrificing and loving people for me. I made a lot of mistakes and blew it big time.
And right when I thought they'd had enough, that surely this time I had ran their love dry, the unexpected happened. My parents wrapped their shielding arms around me and fought my battle with me. They took on my pain as their own and protected me when I was at my lowest. These same two people have managed to balance my dad's fight with cancer and living a life of love and peace. Recently, I grasped why God threw that word at me at the beginning of the year, before I even knew what was going on. God knew things were fixing to get complicated; my dad would get rediagnosed and I would question God how He could do this to my parents who have done nothing but take care of others, I would question myself and my role as a woman vs. a child, I would undoubtedly complicate every event that occurred the coming year. God wasn't saying, " simplify, life really isn't that hard Britney if you would just do things right." He was saying, " daughter, things will not always be easy for you. Sometimes this will be your choice, but other times things will simply occur by My will and you will not understand...instead of complicating things you will never understand, simplify. Trust in My sovereignty."
What my family is battling cannot be understood, but it can be simplified. My dad has cancer: this is conplicated. My God is more than enough: this is simple.