It's French. A little phrase we often hear when folks resign themselves to what is--that moment of accepting life and circumstances surrounding their plights as normal and without recourse.
The laundry's never done. You get your bills all paid, the washer breaks down. You plan a date night and as you're walking out the door, your daughter upchucks on your dress. Just as you finish a post (as in me writing a blog), the computer crashes and you lose your copy. Can't believe how many times that's happened. That's life.
As an internet blogger, I needed to come up with some kind of moniker that represented who I am--what I stand for in life. So when I took the moniker "SelahV", I wanted it to kinda emphasize that two-word French epithet. But my moniker takes on another meaning. It means "pause and calmly think about" the "V-ictory" we have in Jesus.
For me, this is truly how I consider all that "c'est la vie" entails. You see, when I look at all the circumstances I have endured--grief, loss, failure--and continue to face on a daily basis, I don't just chalk it all up to "that's life".
Life is much more than resignation. Life isn't simply hitting a brick wall and coming to a crashing halt or going home to lick your wounds. Life isn't coming to the end of your rope and letting go.
Life is accepting the difficulty and facing it with a spirit of hope. Life is hitting the brick wall, getting up one more time, picking up the broken pieces of life and mending what is mendable. Life is coming to the end of my rope and holding on till God intervenes. Whether it be from a scripture verse to guide me, a prayer for wisdom answered, or an encourager to pull me up onto solid ground again.
Life to me is facing the mountains with the faith to make them molehills. It's meeting challenges with hope in a Sovereign God Who knows my every need before I even need it. It's trusting in Him that no matter what, life is more than a two-word epithet of defeatist surrender. It's calmly thinking about the Victor Who overcame this world of life which is destined to end in death--the Victor Who promises abundant life, everlasting life, to all who trust in Him. selahV Today
