Open your eyes and LIVE!

Lesson: Live Simply!

"A little money, lots of property and good health"

Our local, mountain, university, town newspaper interviewed the high school quarterback and asked him a random list of Q&A’s.  Silly things like, what’s your pet peeve?  What’s for favorite homecooked meal?  And when they asked, if you had a genie and 3 wishes what would you ask for?  And his precious, simple answer was just that, "A litle money, lots of property and good health."  Reminded me of a good country boy.  What more do you need?  Love, maybe?  Yes, I’d say love definitely. 
 
Maybe since this was for the paper it was sugar coated a bit, but at any rate, I wish I thought that simply about life when I was that age. 
 
Yesterday, I finally got an eye-opening message.  And I don’t know why I didn’t see/know it this whole time.  For months now I’ve been thinking about how "ready" I am to move on to the next step of my life.  I graduated college and I feel I’m ready for new challenges and new joys in life.  I constantly am looking forward and wondering when it’s my time to start a career, get engaged, married, buy a house, have kids….  I think about how long it will take me to work up the corporate ladder, when Mark and I are going to start actually building a life together.  I’ll be 24 soon, Mark is almost 27 and after 3 years of dating, I want a bus load of kids, 3, 4 or 5.  I always say I want as many kids as God will give me, as many as He wants me to have.  Then I think, well if I want a big family, I don’t really want to get married and have kids right away, so it’s time to get married already!  I get too ahead of myself.  Need to slow down and smell the roses, live for today. 
 
And then I realized that all those things will come in due time.  When God knows I’m ready, He will make the change in my life.  I need to understand, and am now understanding, that some things you can’t control.  I am going to let my stressors go, as best I can, and let someone else take the wheel.  Let Him control my life, the way He knows how, according to His plan.  It was a crazy though to just sit and realize, like duh all those things haven’t happened yet because God knows I’m not ready.  I will still anticipate, I will still dream, but inside I know my time will come.  There’s a plan for us all. 
 
I also realized Mark and I ARE building a life together right NOW.  Just because aren’t changing last names, or sharing a bank account doesn’t mean we aren’t making a life TOGETHER.  We love each other and for now, until the rest comes, that’s all that matters.  I need to enjoy life as it is and be patient.  Live one day at a time. 
 
There have been so many tragedies around me lately.  None that really have anything to do with me, but people around me at work and their families.  Even the book I’m not reading has been making me think differently.  They’re all coming together and giving me this outlook.  Maybe it’s meant to be, who knows.  But there has to be some reason for all the sadness.