Written by: Steve Sisler… a freak without precedent. Follow me on Twitter or be subject to brutal weirdness every other Monday.

Beware of the post ”I’m having a bad day, a bad month or a bad several years“ Mind-Meld. This particular mind altering phenomenon occurs when life starts to suck really bad. A sucky life takes place when you are virtually broke, your friends hate you now or your dream was dashed against the rocks and has become unrecognizable…

Imagine this… imagine life as a series of mountains and valleys. Every mountain by design MUST have a valley, especially if there are more than one mountain in consecutive stream. Mountains are so wonderful and exhilarating; they remind us that we can do the impossible. Valleys on the other hand feel terrible. They force us to take personal inventory and this is usually about as fun as eating glass while sitting on a frozen pond naked.

The post mountain Mind-Meld begins when what you hoped for fails to materialize and you end up with a crooked mule when you were expecting a Ferrari. All disappointment is based upon personal expectation. Solomon warns us when he says; “Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.” Life IS NOT a system based upon rewards and punishments… you are precious in his sight as you are, not as you should be.

Job 6:20 states, “They are distressed, because they had been confident; they arrive there, only to be disappointed.” This is when the opportunity to become Mind-Melded takes place… what to do? Remember the words of Asaph:

“When my heart was grieved and my spirit embittered, I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before you.” And then he comes to his senses and says; “Yet I am always with you; you hold me by your right hand. You guide me with your counsel and afterward you will take me to glory. Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you…”

“My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever!” This is the key to overcoming the Mind-Meld and breaking the back of discouragement. So when you are lower than a snakes belly in a wagon rut, remember this; you will rise! You will rise like the new dawn and will walk upon serpents and scorpions! You will ride the wind in an effortless breeze upon the breath of the Almighty. This is life and we are better for it when we play in perfect peace upon its mountains as well as within its valleys.