Life

I love life!

This is my first blog post, so I felt that the first words should be important, they should reflect me, what I feel, who I am. The best way I can express this is simply through those three words, I love life.

Take a moment and examine this moment, what do you have to be grateful for? Honestly take a moment and just think, you have so many things. I am not directing this at a specific group of people, I am not saying your life is in order, I am not saying you have everything going for you, I am not saying really anything is right in your life. You may be at your wits end, you may have broken relationships and debts that need to be paid, I don't know what your situation is. But what I am saying is that you live in a world with four seasons, each as beautiful as the next. You live in a world where the rain falls and grows plants of all kinds, where there are hidden blessings all around you. Just look around, you will find them.

There was a time when I could not find beauty in these things.
If this is you, you still have something to be grateful for, and this is the secret to my happiness, the reason I love life.

Someone loves you.

His name is Jesus. He loves you.

He can look past your mistakes, He can look past your wits end, and tell you He loves you.

Jesus said, "I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly." (John 10:10 b) I do love this life, I love its seasons, its joys, its lessons, I love it because it is a gift given to me by my Father, but it is not just this, I love the life that I have because I am a Christian, because now all of those things in this life are given to me more abundantly.

This is life. Learning to accept the love that He has given to you, learning to love Him back. And it is beautiful.