You know, we as people are something else; lemme tell ya. Just think about it for a second, you’re a person.. You’re an adult, or a teenager, or maybe a child if you’ve stumbled upon this random webpage of mine when looking for “Webkinz.” It happens —– World Race, Webkinz.. all the same. As for me, I’m a senior in high school, so not quite an adult but I’m also no longer a child. A teenager. Teenagers are weird in general, we’re the practice round before the big test – but to me, we’re in the process if you will. We’re no longer children so bicycles turn into cars, but we’re also not totally grown so tax forms remain 12 page APUSH writing assignments. Just think a moment, the process of growing up is strange to think about. We all, every single one of us, despite the labels that society has categorized the human race by, ALL go through the same process. We go from tiny little sea monkey aliens, to semi human looking things, and we grow and grow and grow a little more, until we are born onto this planet earth and take our very first breath. We go from babies born into this crazy world, to toddlers, from a little tot to a child, and then next thing you know, we’re graduating high school, going to college, falling in and out of love, falling down, getting up, in some cases – like mine – falling down again and again, until the floor becomes our new best friend and falling becomes normal…literally, and figuratively.. . *hesitant uncomfortable laugh* we’re traveling the world, and beginning families of our own, and then the time comes where we’re sitting on our front porches, growing old with the loves of our lives, or the children we adore, and maybe with families of their own. Thinking about our lives, reminicin’ on what we’ve done to make the world better, people and places where our footprints sit and resonate on, to the very day we find ourselves thinkin’ back to when… For some of us, including myself this is the ideal life. Traveling, facing figurative and literal mountains and coming out on the other side victorious, meeting people, loving people, HELPING people, a life full of laughing and dancing, lots and lots of dancing, sunset chasing, star gazing, listening to music, good music, live music because there’s nothing like it, having a family, falling in love, a life full of life.. Not just mere existence, but truly and utterly feeling alive. Pushing my boundaries, getting out of my comfort zone, feeling emotion to the fullest. Passionately loving, and effortlessly living with no dollar amount to chase, no goals centered around materialistic entities that will only last a few months or a couple of years. When we die those things don’t come with us, perspective does, memories will, lives we’ve touched, what we’ve done, things we’ve experienced.. I crave a life full of not only true fervent life, but true passionate love. MmMmmM. Dreamy, truly. But the thing is, I’m a little expectant of the future, and sometimes not everything works out the way we plan….
The exciting thing about life is that we don’t know the plan, we don’t know what’s going to happen when, or who the Lord will put into our lives and for what reason, everything – simply put; uncontrollably happens, and not only that – these things take time. It’s not what lies ahead that I think scares people, it’s not knowing. Us faulty people are so used to a schedule. At school for instance, doors open early for teachers, but class for students starts at 8:10 a.m. we go class to class spending no more than exactly an hour and 25 minutes with a five minute transition period in-between classes, and a thirty minute lunch period. 5 Days a week. For 9 months, with designated breaks such as winter break and spring break, best of all SUMMER break!!!!! Our whole year is planned out for us. A schedule.. Even as you grow older, you won’t just go into work as you please, you’ll get fired. You’ve got set days you work, and typically those days don’t change.
We’re so used to having a plan, and finding the right time. Always looking for the right time for that conversation that you’ve gotta have with that certain someone who went behind your back, or the right time to make your move on that lil buddy you really like, the right time to talk to your teacher about that missing assignment, the right time to tell someone you love them. What if I told you the right time didn’t exist. There’s no such thing as the perfect timing. The perfect time is in the moment, right now. “The time is now” Cliche – ness is seeping through me right now because that’s such a cheesy quote but the cheesy ones also couldn’t be more true.. If you spend all of your time waiting around for the perfect moment, the present moment will blow right past you, and then opportunities just pass you by. Time is of the essence people, one of the most precious gifts we’ve been given in this life.
Don’t take advantage of that.
And I say don’t take advantage of that but we all do it anyways. What are you doing right now? Reading this blog, are you in your room you’ve got sick of scrolling through Instagram so here you are? Are you takin a lil break from Netflix? Are you sitting in class dreading the hour of notes your about to take? Or in the work place postponing those papers you need to file? (I’m not really sure what jobs consist of.. I’ve only worked at a cookie shop) Me too, but for what? We spend a handful of time at school a chunk of time at work, so why not make it the best 7 hours? We have opportunity staring deep into our eyes, and we don’t even see it! I can assure you in the moment you can be doing something worthwhile, meaningful, you’re wasting time in your room watching scandal, get up!! Go outside!! Make your neighbor some cookies!! Or what about sitting in class taking notes, school is your platform!! To influence, and lead. Do those things! Don’t waste your time on Netflix, invest time in people. LIFELONG MEMORIES. You want to remember those when you grow old, not the Pilot episode of Gossip Girl. Nothing against Gossip Girl, Serena Van Der Woodsen all the way, but to think back to how much time I wasted on that show… tears.. We all have an expiration date on this earth, do you wanna look back on your life tomorrow or next week or 33 years from now and think “wow, I really wish I did that thing.” ?? NO! Of course you don’t!!! So do that thing, chase that dream, pursue that passion. Tomorrow is not guaranteed people.
————————– Let that sit a while———————…….—– woah. make today the bestest??!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You see, the beautiful thing about having a relationship with the Lord is that you don’t know the plan, and for some people – that’s scary. As for me, that’s the beauty of it all. You don’t know what the plan consists of but why should you? It’s better not knowing, how many kids you’ll have, with who, when, where you’ll live, for how long. No. Surprise keeps life interesting. The mystery is enticing, captivating. Life is not meant to be easy. The intentions of God when He spoke the earth into existence were originally to create this Eden for us to live in, but He’d already known that we’re silly humans and that we’d mess up, and we did exactly that. Which is okay, you know why? Because it was apart of His plan. We silly little humans think we’ve got control of our lives. That it’s up to us, but in the grand scheme of things, our lives are already mapped out, intentionally, unfathomably and intricately detailed. And for you planners out there – unfortunately…. we don’t know what that schedule consists of – so that’s where you learn to trust Him.
Yes, trust. It’s a huge thing. Trust.
People today place God in a little box, some people confine Him to this little box, and think “alright dude you got this part of my life, I’ve got this part. If I need prayer here, I’ll come to you, but when it comes to that boy I like or Saturday night plans, I’ve got it. Don’t worry”
Except PEOpLe!!! I’m WoRriEd!!! I was that girl! I had those exact thoughts, and my life was A MESS!!!!! I put our God in a tiny little box. But BOY, I WAS SO WRONG. Please explain to me how someone who created the earth to be the perfect distance away from the sun so that we don’t burn up in flames, and let me tell you a half of a centimeter to the right and we’d freeeeze up, COULD BE SHOVED INTO A LITTLE BOX.. I doubted the SAME GOD who created 10,000 + species of birds so that we could appreciate and delight in birds of all shapes and sizes. BIRDS PEOPLE!!!!!!! Lets not forget the 100,000+ species of trees, or 400,000+ DIFFERENT types of FLoWeRSS! Francis Chan, in his book “Crazy Love” talks about different laughs. The laughs of our friends and family, the giggles, the loud, obnoxious, quiet, and cute little laughs that the people around us obtain. He very well could have made everyone the same, with the same laugh, same taste in music, and fashion, but HE DIDN’T!!! He created so much for US! For a reason!!! The Lord, He is intentional. He doesn’t make mistakes. He doesn’t accidentally place that disrespectful boyfriend in your life because He forgot you liked nice boys?? I get it, bad things happen, and we question Him and we doubt Him, and His intentions for our lives. WHY DO WE DO IT!!!!! He. Is. Intentional. Bad days are intentional, good days are intentional, everyday He’s put you on this earth.. Is WORTH something. I’m not saying once you give the Lord a heart abandoned, you’ll never have bad days again and every day will be full of all things good but what I am saying is that there won’t be a doubt in your mind that whatever He’s got going on in your life is for a reason, and it’ll benefit you in the end. You find comfort in the fact that He’s in complete control, you find joy in every. Little. Thing. Your heart overflows with compassion and love for those around you, You’ll see the Lord navigate Himself through your friends and family, grocery store clerks, and bank tellers. He’s everywhere, and in everything. You see the world with fresh eyes, the good things become great things, and the bad things just happen, you push through them, with Him, right beside you. You gain confidence and appreciation for the little things, you find self worth and value, and these things don’t happen overnight people. They take, time. Just like all things do.. But the best part? You’re not on your own.
That may have been messy and all over the place but I’m a tad of both of those characteristics therefore this blog has done an outstanding job at being a perfect representation of me. But I just want to thank you, for reading this, Truly, my heart is full tonight, though my eyes are heavy and paint still coats my face from a little arts and crafts activity my little sister and I did earlier, I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to read this. I thank you all for prayers and donations and I just want to let you know, it means the world plus some to me. Enjoy this day, or this night, enjoy this life people! You’ve only got one.
