Life is Beautiful.....

The definition of beautiful........ having beauty; having qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, think about, etc.; delighting the senses or mind.........I believe that life is beautiful. I don't believe that beauty is always happy, attractive, easy, smooth, joyous, etc. Life is full of ups and downs. Sometimes you are cruising through life and you have no worries. Sometimes it feels as if you are always tired and living one day at a time. The past 6 weeks or so, life has been passing me by. Rascal Flatts has a song about that......"There comes a time in everyone's life, when all you can see are the years passing by........." I can usually find the emotion I'm going through in music. During this time in my life, this song has been my anthem. I've come to realize that life isn't as easy as I thought. Of course I didn't think that life was easy, but I definitely was not anticipating all of this. There are times in life where you go through the day pretty much care free. Nothing really happens that will keep you up at night. Then there are times like these where you just try to get through the day. God is gracious. He continues to get me through the day. He continues to wake me up everyday with a beautiful day. God has always been good to me. About life being beautiful.....I believe you have to see the beauty of life whether times are good or bad. God didn't create life for it to being dark sometimes and light sometimes. He created life and it is beautiful to him. No matter what happens he receives glory. THAT concept I will never wrap my hands around as a finite human being. Whether you are happy or sad, life is still beautiful. If life sucks and your neighbor just won the lottery, your life is still beautiful. When you walk in the door and say, "hey mom," and she says, "hey shug." That is BEAUTIFUL!! She won't be around forever, but I'll be damned if I'm gonna miss the beauty of her saying it now. I'm gonna have to call it a night, I need to rest my bones even if my mind won't rest.