loving what you have
I heard the comment today," It's so much easier to learn to love the things you have than be angry about the things you don't." That statement has really got me thinking. How much time in my life have I wasted wishing for something more? The answer....WAY TOO MUCH!!!!!!! I have literally spent countless hours and tears wishing that I had more or thinking,"if I just had this..." like..more money, a different job, better house, better car, more willpower, different hair, better figure, better behaved kids, you get the point. It's always something else that is what it's going to take to FINALLY make me happy. But guess what? It's never enough. I always want more and every little thing that come up next is it. This is what will make me happy and it does, maybe for five minutes or a day, even a week, but there is always something new on the horizon that will finally bring me everlasting happiness and peace with myself. What I really need to do is find happiness and peace in what I aleady have. On one hand..I have so much more than alot of people do, and should be grateful for that. On the other hand I have alot less than some people do. When you see others that have more than you do, the automatic response is,"That's not fair!" My daughter belts that line out atleast five times a day. But who get's to make the rules about what's fair and what's not? Only God does. It's not fair that Jesus had to die for our sins, but he did and he accepted it without question, without saying hey dad, that's not fair..why should I suffer because they screwed up? The problem is he suffered for us and here we are all these years later still taking that for granted. That my friends is an example of not fair. Not that my sister in law is richer than us and has 5 luxury cars. It's not all about the material things. Life should be about loving what you've been given and accepting things for what they are and not what you expect them to be. I guess I need to figure out how to accept the fact that the glass slipper doesn't always fit and stop expecting prince charming to come sweep me off my feet and carry me away to never never land where I will live happily ever after. Moving to Disney Land just isn't an option.....Damn!