JUST THAT,CONTENT

For most of life I think we fight God. We keep trying to show him what we were made for.

We keep giving him better ideas. We keep working for something bigger and greater than anything he seems to have in mind. For many of us, by the time we are in mid-life, we feel we somehow have missed out on some of the great things we were born for. We fight with God over this.

I come to you, however, knowing God made me not to impress you.

Not to be perfect or a genius. Not to make a million dollars! God made me to be un complicated in my faith. To watch children and kites and sunsets and rainbows and enjoy them. To take your hand regardless of who you are or how you look. To listen to you. To accept you right where you are. To love you unconditionally. God made me to be real. To be honest. To be open. To never ever compare myself to you, but to strive to become my own best person. Just some food for the spirit. Enjoy!

Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you." So we say with confidence, "The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid."
Hebrews 13:5-6

"Marriage is not a word,it's a sentence".

Everybody loves the thought of being in love even more the act of it. You begin thinking how wonderful it's going to be, and when I say "it" I mean life. Marriage is supposed to be a new journey with someone that is exciting, loving, and wants to share their life with you. Some say "I'm married and bored" and others say "What's a life without a mate to share it with". I guess it's all in how you perceive marriage to be. Being the middle child of four siblings and coming from a two parent home where only one parent (my mom) was active, it gave me a shaded view well a down right blind view of what married life is to be. I mean growing up as a little girl I can remember always hearing the stories "fairy tales" of prince charming coming to sweep me off my feet and I shall get married and live happily ever after. But you and I both know that's not the truth. I wish those fairy tales could be altered a bit just to give a little tastes of reality. It would go something like prince charming comes and sweeps you off of your feet stumbles a bit because he sees how much weight you've gained from the two kids you birthed for him and after a couple of years of marriage the realization is you may possibly curse, cry, scream, and lie. I think Anita Baker said it best in her popular song "Fairy Tales". Marriage I tell you is not like it used to be. The man and woman would work at the relationship in order for it to last. Some say the values of marriage have gone down, and with the high number of divorce rates, I'm starting to believe it. All the defences of marriage I notice stem from the men and women of a moral back ground and the offenses of marriage are coming from men and women with bad experiences. Perhaps people are not meant to be monogamous anymore than most of the other animals in our food chain. Society and religion favor monogamy advocated by some desiring stability over excitement, quality of life over quantity of life. (just a thought) I've come to believe that some people have been informed to think that when you hit a certain point in life after ten or fifteen years of marriage, that life all of a sudden becomes short or better yet boring. Realizing that the years are catching up with you, that old friend Dan from college or Karen from the Christmas party starts to ring a bell. (Even though you would probably want them to ring your bells because he or she had a secret move that when they did it made your heart sing, but I digress). You begin to remember how that person made you feel ,but I think taking into account that's all it was and still is "a feeling" nothing more nothing less. No, marriage is not a sprint, but a marathon in this game called life. As long as you have the right team mate or running mate, getting to that finish line seems a whole lot easier. I truly believe that love is what you make and with whom you make it. In conclusion, Gods second greatest gift the love of a man and woman and that sacred vow. Being thankful is the key here because there are many who wish they could have all that marriage entails...the good and the bad. Just my thoughts everybody. Thanks for reading.