I don't know what it is about human nature, where we tend to let things distract us from what in our hearts we know we should appreciate and spend more time developing; but instead we take things forgranted and let them slip away from us. I don't want to take anything or anyone forgranted in my life. While I may regret some things that I allowed to take place in my life/past, I appreciate every experience. It has matured me in a way I needed to be matured. And while I may not appreciate some things people have done or said against me in life/past, I appreciate them...for challenging me to learn how to love beyond the hurt and disappointment of it. For years I had held on to a single hurt that tainted everything I put my hands into and I never thought I'd ever be able to conquer it. Prayer really works you guys. I had been praying about it for quite some time, and slowly that thing was dissolving within me, until I looked up one day and it wasn't even really there anymore. I didn't feel it like I used to, I didn't react to it like I used to. Couldn't even tell you at what point God took it from me, but I feel very differently about it now...complete turn around. I could look back at all the catastrophes that happened as a result of that single hurt and say I wish I never had to go through it. But instead, I wonder how great I would have held God in my eyes and in my heart had I not gone through it and he delivered me! Sometimes God allow people into your life and different events to happen that for a while are negative, but it presents a great opportunity for Him to prove just how much of a great and able God He is to make things happen for us. And He cares enough to do it. So, I don't want to take even them that have hurt me forgranted. They have caused my faith and love for God to grow when otherwise, I may have only thought little of Him and what He was able to do for me.
L8r-
~faithful
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