Are you going through the motions?

Sometimes you don't realize what blessings you really have in life. Sometimes you don't realize how fantastic life is until someone points it out to you. Sometimes we take so much of life for granted that we just don't think about it.

Life for me is a series of learning experiences. It is a series of questioning of myself and my surroundings. Yes, some of those learning experiences have been incredibly painful. Some of those experiences have ripped me to the core.

Some however, are so exciting, such a mountaintop experience for me that I cannot explain it. I have so many times that I knew God was right there and had His hand working right with me.

Why do we go through the motions? Why do we get stuck in a rut and not know how to climb out? Why can't we praise God everyday for the wonderful and powerful blessings we have been given. We can look at every little experience as "OH THIS IS BAD." We can look at the bad in almost anything. We can bury ourselves in pity and really not be able to "see the forest for the trees."

I am a hopeless optimist. Really a hopeful sounds better .... but there is no help for my hope so I will go with hopeless optimist. I ALWAYS try to look for the good in everything and everyone around me. That stupid glass is always half full. Even when everyone else is going "wah wah wah. I'm so pathetic" - I have to look for the hope and optimism that it will all turn out good. Call it a character flaw I guess.

I have said countless times that I firmly believe that God is in total control of my life. Because I have given God that control, I know God that will not give me more than I can handle. Because I have had the learning experiences to know how to crawl out of the trenches and ruts of life, I know that I can come out on top. That has taken a long long time but I know that I can do it.

So, the next time I get stuck in that rut, that daily grind of life, I hope my glass can truly be half full...or running over with God's grace and peace.