I know I should be enjoying this stage of life- just graduated, living on my own, babysitting, etc, but it seems like everyone around me is skipping over this straight to marriage. Not that that is a bad thing. I'm happy for them but at the same time, a little jealous. I want something so bad that I can't have right now. Granted, there are a lot of factors playing into the whole situation and there are times when I think rationally with my brain, but tonight I'm thinking with me heart and I'm a little bummed. I also miss my family terribly and that isn't helping.
Life is short, too short to not make the most of it. I wonder why we spend all our time working away from the ones who mean the most of us? Why do we do it? I know we have to in order to make a living and actually be able to live, but it stinks. I don't see the point right now in working our lives away and always pining for more time; more time away from work; more time to spend with the ones we love; more time to relax; I guess that's just how life is.
So I ask, are you happy with what you have now? Or are you missing now because you're too busy looking ahead or behind you? Sorry if it slaps you in the face. It slapped me in the face too. If you find yourself in the same boat I do, I challenge you to make a concerted effort every day to ask the Lord to help you make the most of the day; to help you see the value of today and why He's blessed you with another day. I sure do intend to try much harder to remember that each day is a gift. Everything will come in His timing and one day, reality will in fact be better than my dreams.
*The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
-Henry David Thoreau
Wow: a very thoughtful post. And you hit the nail on the head: one day at a time, one step at a time, one breath at a time. God has a plan! It rarely meets what we think the timing or matches our schedule, but resting in the knowledge that God's plan is perfect should be enough to keep us sitting happily in the palm of his hand. Slow down. Enjoy where He has you, be happy where you are and with what He has blessed you with. If you keep looking ahead of you to what is on the top of the next hill, you miss the blessing of the journey!
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