Someone else's blues

When I woke up this morning I had someone else's blues.

That's an old blues song but it was also a fact for me this morning. The more spiritual among us call it intercession or burden bearing but, fact is, what I was feeling this morning belonged to someone else.

Just like the old blues song I really feel pretty good. Got God, got joy, got peace, got money...got a lot of things that have nothing to do with the blues. In fact, on waking I felt joyful and started thinking joyful thoughts but suddenly noticed this other feeling of depression and heaviness. It actually wanted me to say Yes to it, "Yes, that's how I am feeling". It wanted agreement. Instead I just sang a verse of the old song,

"Got more food than I can eat,
Got more money than I can use,
But when I woke up this morning,
I had someone else's blues."

Now tell me how it is that someone else's blues get to find me and see if I'll agree with what they have to say? I'm not interested thank you. How did they get past my God filter? Through the hedge of protection?

Anyway, I did what the other person should have done, I told them to bugger off. Then I laid claim to all the positive aspects of my awesome life, listing them one buy one. Thought the blues might be interested.

Which took me to another line in the song where the guy is listing all the great things about his life, "Pull my hand out of my pocket too fast and I might lose a couple of 50 dollar bills". Yeah, that's life in Christ.

Pa