Well, today was a nice day to sleep in and do nothing all day! Normaly I am up around 6:00 on Sunday mornings to get to church to sit through hours of services...but today was a nice relaxing day that I got to sleep in until about 10:00 and then just relax and hang out with Stephen, Brandy, & David! We did end up finaly watching the last Pirates of the Carribean, and then ate dinner, and now here we are getting ready to play ghetto uno again!
It was such a different Sunday for me as I don't get many days of just rest. Sometimes we get so caught up in the things of life, we get stuck in our daily & weekly routines that we don't take the time to step back and just appreciate all of the many blessings that we have! We begin to get burned out and become oblivious to the things that God is doing for us, and sometimes it takes drastic measures to make us step back and look at the grand picture of life to even gather how much we have missed, but yet how much potential God still has for us in the future! I have found that some things are shown to us in a way that we like and that we can enjoy finding, but sometimes we become so stubborn in our ways that God has to use some pretty difficult situations to turn us back around to seeking Him instead of seeking our own ways for our lives, but in everything that happens, just as the Bible says, that "all things work together for good for those who love & trust God"! The adventure that we call life is going to be rough, and it is not promised to be easy, but when we step back and look at our lives and see how small the speck our lifespance is in the scope of eternity, a lot of things are brought back into persepctive for us! As Russell Howard once said in a class that I took "How many of you know your parents first & last names, how about all of your grandparents first & last name, now how about your great grandparents...." by that time, nobody in the room could say they knew all that, to see that in only 3 generations, you have been forgotten about! So when life is looked at from that perspective, I know that I don't want to just live my life, but I want my life to make an impact!
How about you?
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