The world as I see it...

has many layers. Kind of like an onion.

To quote one of my favorite movie exchanges:
Shrek: Ogres are like onions.
Donkey: They stink?
Shrek: Yes. No.
Donkey: Oh, they make you cry.
Shrek: No.
Donkey: Oh, you leave em out in the sun, they get all brown, start sproutin' little white hairs.
Shrek: NO. Layers. Onions have layers. Ogres have layers. Onions have layers. You get it? We both have layers.
[sighs]
Donkey: Oh, you both have layers. Oh. You know, not everybody like onions.

And not everyone likes the world, either. Whether it's politics, their life situation, their job, their own body...everyone that I've spoken with is pretty much in the same boat.

Something I've discovered, though. You don't need to be in your boat alone. We will try to fill our boat with all kinds of things to make us think that our layered world works. Money, homes, cars, even good acts like serving at a shelter or soup kitchen tend to layer our lives with good things. The only thing I've seen is it weighs down the boat.

Maybe it's not about what you have in the boat...but more like who you have in the boat. It's not about where you are sailing, but who is leading you. Insert good Sunday school quote here..."sounds like the answer is Jesus."

Yep. That is my answer for what is going on in my boat right now. Some may call it a crutch, some delusional thinking. But I humbly respond that it's not so much about what others think, it's only about what Jesus thinks.