“I want a life that sizzles and pops and makes me laugh out loud. And I don’t want to get to the end, or to tomorrow, even, and realize that my life is a collection of meetings and pop cans and errands and receipts and dirty dishes. I want to eat cold tangerines and sing out loud in the car with the windows open and wear pink shoes and stay up all night laughing and painting my walls the exact color of the sky right now. I want to sleep hard on clean white sheets and throw parties and eat ripe tomatoes and read books so good they make me jump up and down, and I want everyday to make God belly laugh, glad that He gave life to someone who loves the gift.”
Shauna Niequist author of “Cold Tangerines”
Life is a gift. How often we forget this. We get wrapped up in the monotony of life.
Wake up. Go to work. Work out. Eat 3 meals. Go to sleep.
Sure there are other things thrown into each day but it seems that each day there is a list of things and they get a little check mark next to them once they are completed.
I have found myself waking up lately with a list of all the things I have to do in a day and forgetting that it is amazing that I’m even waking up and have another day to live my life on this earth.
So this is how I intend to spend my days from now on. How I intend to live Heaven on Earth. How I intend to honor my Father who gave me this gift of life. How I intend to live a life that sizzles and pops.
I want to wake up everyday and my first breath to be one of thanksgiving to God because He gifted me with this life. I want to celebrate each and every day- the simple and small things to the big and glorious things. I want my list each day to be a list that celebrates life, a list that glorifies God and a list that just brings joy. I want to fall asleep and my last breath be one of praise and thanksgiving because He gifted me another beautiful day.
This is the kind of life God has invited us into. A life full of joy. A life full of love. A life full of whimsy. A life that sizzles and pops. All you have to do is say “yes.”
