If I could save time……
Life is life is my newest repetitive answer. I am listening to Jordan Peterson’s lecture called “What do you do when you have no vision?”. It is so good. Look at the past, glean the good, learn from the bad and author your future.
Life is life. Life is what YOU make it. What you make out of the hard times and grow. What you change in your life to make it better.
Do you have faith? If no you must foster it to fruition. Through study, prayer, meditation and praise.
Do you have enough money to live? If no, then you must search and find it by seeking jobs, increasing skills, and learning.
Do you like yourself? If no, you must figure out why, find your value, your worth, change if necessary, but know you are worthy of Christ’s death on the cross. Start there.
Do you have tangible things like a roof over your head, a car to drive, clothes to wear, food to eat? If no, pray for provision, work hard to find it, offer yourself as a sacrifice to gain it.
Vision is intangible with your eyes closed. It is impossible if you shut them to truth. It is impossible to see a future, if you have scales over them. It is also limited if you do not open them wide enough to see outside of yourself in a mirror. Panoramic views are beautiful if you look.
If you are stuck like Chuck. If you are running on the treadmill of life never changing anything you do but expecting things to go differently, you are in a race that never ends until you misstep, fly off the back, get back up and then refuse to step on the same train.
Life is not just life, it is hard. But it is also beautiful and rewarding on the other side if you look for the joy in the sad, grace in the mad, forgiveness in the unforgivable, peace in chaos, trust after betrayal, kindness to the undeserving, faith in the unseen, hope in the hopeless.
People ask me often how I maintain my optimism and positive faith. In fact it has been called chronic. Hallelujah. Chronically optimistic, chronically positive, chronically faithful to Jesus, chronically without earthly fear, chronically hopeful. Yes. What a compliment.
Why am I so filled with this ailment. The scales fell off of my eyes. Christ died for a human wretch like me. I am filled with the Holy Spirit. I study Gods word, meditate on it, seek deeper understanding. I am a disciple, a chronic learner. I praise Him for everything I have, everything I have overcome. I do not fear death, or bad weather, or abusers, or loss because I know where I am going and I want to take everyone with me. Its something I want to pass on for generations and break anything that threatens it off at the pass with the hands of The Great Physician. A God who sees. A God of mercy and grace.
Choose life. Choose Joy. Choose to work hard, and live well. Choose your battles carefully and be humble.
Life will always be life. It will always be hard. But it is good.
You cannot save time in a bottle or anywhere. It will pass, and it will do it quickly. Instead release the ugly you stored up in your soul. Release the anger, the fear, the sadness, the pain and save your soul and bring others with you. Time stops for no man, but forever was given by one.
Stay Beautiful
Susanne
Susanne Moore 