Sunday, September 18, 2011
Beautiful Life pt. 2
Beautiful-Excellent of it's kind.
Life-A course of existence or sum of experiences and actions that constitute a person's existence.
Beautiful Life-A course of existence or sum of experiences that are excellent of it's kind.
Welcome to a Beautiful Life. Welcome to a life where you decide what's beautiful an what isn't.
You decide if your experiences shape who you are or if who you are shapes your experiences.
My Father would always tell me "It's not what happens to you but how you respond!".
Situations and circumstances are inevitable. We as humans have no control over what happens and doesn't happen to us. However, we have the ultimate God given ability to control our own thoughts and actions.
“It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.” That's a quote from Anthony Robbins, an advisor to American leaders. That quote means so much to me. God has given us this power to control and determine how we live. He has a plan for us but we can choose to accept or reject. Deuteronomy 30:19 clearly shows that He has given us a choice.
So I pray you choose life and a beautiful one at that.
Grace and Love
Life-A course of existence or sum of experiences and actions that constitute a person's existence.
Beautiful Life-A course of existence or sum of experiences that are excellent of it's kind.
Welcome to a Beautiful Life. Welcome to a life where you decide what's beautiful an what isn't.
You decide if your experiences shape who you are or if who you are shapes your experiences.
My Father would always tell me "It's not what happens to you but how you respond!".
Situations and circumstances are inevitable. We as humans have no control over what happens and doesn't happen to us. However, we have the ultimate God given ability to control our own thoughts and actions.
“It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.” That's a quote from Anthony Robbins, an advisor to American leaders. That quote means so much to me. God has given us this power to control and determine how we live. He has a plan for us but we can choose to accept or reject. Deuteronomy 30:19 clearly shows that He has given us a choice.
So I pray you choose life and a beautiful one at that.
Grace and Love
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Beautiful Life
Its a beautiful life.
We live in a time where everything seems to be falling apart. Our families are splintered, the economy is suffering, natural disasters are destroying lives one catastrophe at a time, and to top it all off we no longer believe in the people and organizations that we thought would protect us. I won't even begin to discuss the political scandals, ponzi schemes, and an assortment of atrocities that would take way too much time if I tried to list them all. Who can we trust? Or better yet, who SHOULD we trust?
The majority of what is happening in this life doesn't seemingly scream beautiful. To most people, it is the exact opposite. TO MOST PEOPLE.
Today I was talking to a friend from work and he was telling me that his 2 week old daughter has been in the hospital. He went on to explain that she was born with a hole in her heart the size of quarter. I was stunned. It's hard hearing stories about children who are born with serious illness and defects. I started to feel sadness. I figured if I feel sad the surely he must be struggling, being that he is the father.
So I asked him if he was good. He looked at me like I had 4 heads!
"Yeah!" He said. "I'm strong!"
He continued by saying that people only worry and fall apart because they lose their faith. "Ill never lose my faith. I got more faith than anybody. You can chop my neck off and I'ma still have faith!"
Faith is an action word. Faith allows us to see the beauty even when life gets ugly. My friend could mope and call out of work because his daughter's life is literally in jeopardy. And a lot of people would say he would be doing the right thing. But his faith refused to let him dwell on the negativity that he had and I'm sure is still dealing with.
So I'm taking a page out of his book and I'm choosing to walk by faith and not by sight.
Life is beautiful that way!
We live in a time where everything seems to be falling apart. Our families are splintered, the economy is suffering, natural disasters are destroying lives one catastrophe at a time, and to top it all off we no longer believe in the people and organizations that we thought would protect us. I won't even begin to discuss the political scandals, ponzi schemes, and an assortment of atrocities that would take way too much time if I tried to list them all. Who can we trust? Or better yet, who SHOULD we trust?
The majority of what is happening in this life doesn't seemingly scream beautiful. To most people, it is the exact opposite. TO MOST PEOPLE.
Today I was talking to a friend from work and he was telling me that his 2 week old daughter has been in the hospital. He went on to explain that she was born with a hole in her heart the size of quarter. I was stunned. It's hard hearing stories about children who are born with serious illness and defects. I started to feel sadness. I figured if I feel sad the surely he must be struggling, being that he is the father.
So I asked him if he was good. He looked at me like I had 4 heads!
"Yeah!" He said. "I'm strong!"
He continued by saying that people only worry and fall apart because they lose their faith. "Ill never lose my faith. I got more faith than anybody. You can chop my neck off and I'ma still have faith!"
Faith is an action word. Faith allows us to see the beauty even when life gets ugly. My friend could mope and call out of work because his daughter's life is literally in jeopardy. And a lot of people would say he would be doing the right thing. But his faith refused to let him dwell on the negativity that he had and I'm sure is still dealing with.
So I'm taking a page out of his book and I'm choosing to walk by faith and not by sight.
Life is beautiful that way!
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