URNotAlone

Living Life

August 9th, 2008 7:02 pm MDT

HI Friends!  All of you are so awesome and though I am not able to stay in touch with you like I wish I could, I appreciate the warm welcome that you have expressed or emailed me.  Life sure gets crazy and there are times when something happens or someone shares something with you that makes you stop.  Stop to truly see the beauty around you, to see that life has so many things to offer even amongst the difficult times. We have so many things to offer to other people.  Our life stories when we stop being victims have a powerful impact on other lives.  We can become an inspiration, or the touch that someone needs, or the smile that they have been waiting for, or the hug that says I am there and you are loved for who you are.  Life is so short and each day we have to live as though it truly is our last.  Yesterday is done, it is gone.  Today . . . . it is here.  And no matter what our situation is this day, we have to choose to live as we are, because that gets us closer to being who we are meant to be, want to be tomorrow.  But if we keep waiting for tomorrow to live because we are waiting to 'arrive' first, to be totally happy,  . . . . then it is one more day that we have allowed the negative to rob us of being closer to our dreams.  Tomorrow may never come -- we assume it will. The caterpiller, it goes through many transitions before it becomes a beautiful living butterfly.  But it keeps moving forward from a fuzzy crawling woolie bear, to a place where the change happens, to finally emerging till she is ready to fly.  And she is beautiful . . . . but she worked for that freedom.  And she lives with grace because she knew, each stage of her life, brought her to this glory.  It wasn't always easy, but she knew who she was becoming and she stayed faithful to moving forward one day at a time, living each day . . . . . living life, because none of us were created as a mistake, but with a purpose of becoming.  And that includes the people in our lives -- we were never meant to do life alone.  Hugs!