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My Life Perspective on Life's "Happenings"
Recently, while sitting in a traffic jam one day and driving home the next, I came to realize how frustrated I was becoming over something I had no control over. Traffic jams happen. Situations in general happen. Some things I have some say or control over and some things I don't and they just HAPPEN.
The Webster definition of the word "happen" is "come to pass." Life does this. It happens...comes to PASS. The operative and hopeful word is PASS. No matter what goes on in life, it passes by eventually. It's the way of things and how they were Created.
Instead of fretting over the traffic jam, the heat, the slowness of the moment in time that I found myself in, I started pondering my life. I began with when I was a baby, then I gradually considered each stage of my life and what thoughts I may have been thinking, ideas I may have learned, concerns I had, fears, hopes dreams...and
I realized what a VAPOR life actually is! It comes and it goes and then it's done or we go on to eternity somewhere...heaven I hope!
Point is, why fret over things we have no control of? There are so many ways to spend my energy and I am choosing to NOT FRET anymore. Striving in life to have a bigger house, car, things, keep up with the Joneses...no, not for me. Not anymore. It's just not how I want to live my life...worried, in competition and always feeling like there is more I MUST HAVE TO BE COMPLETE. No thank you. I think I will just enjoy the journey and feel blessed that I get to be on one!
The Webster definition of the word "happen" is "come to pass." Life does this. It happens...comes to PASS. The operative and hopeful word is PASS. No matter what goes on in life, it passes by eventually. It's the way of things and how they were Created.
Instead of fretting over the traffic jam, the heat, the slowness of the moment in time that I found myself in, I started pondering my life. I began with when I was a baby, then I gradually considered each stage of my life and what thoughts I may have been thinking, ideas I may have learned, concerns I had, fears, hopes dreams...and
James 4:14 New King James Version (NKJV)
14 whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
I realized what a VAPOR life actually is! It comes and it goes and then it's done or we go on to eternity somewhere...heaven I hope!
Point is, why fret over things we have no control of? There are so many ways to spend my energy and I am choosing to NOT FRET anymore. Striving in life to have a bigger house, car, things, keep up with the Joneses...no, not for me. Not anymore. It's just not how I want to live my life...worried, in competition and always feeling like there is more I MUST HAVE TO BE COMPLETE. No thank you. I think I will just enjoy the journey and feel blessed that I get to be on one!
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