Big Picture

Occasionally I just feel like writing something more significant than I usually do. I mean obviously mario bros is important as well as the topic of pizza but sometimes... I don't know I just feel like being deeper or more creative or both. Earlier today I was just cruising through blogspot and I passed through a blog by a women who started her blog to get out her thoughts of the loss of her son. He apparently was born with some strange condition and didn't live for more than 20hrs but her whole blog was about her daily feelings about it for one year and (stay with me here) it was one of the most up lifting blogs I've ever come across. What? Yes I read that I mean I wrote it and I realize it sounds crazy but it's true. She considered herself to be a pessimist according to her profile but in fact her words were not that way at all. She stood strong in that God would take care of her as well as her dear passed son and her husband whom, according to her blog, took it much harder and his yet to move past it. Maybe he should start a blog. Anyway, why do I post about this stranger up in Canada who lost a child last year? Good question. I guess my answer would be...Often times I find that it's very easy for me to get totally wrapped into myself. I'm slightly aware of those other things that are accuring around me, like my best friend Konni had a bouncing baby boy last monday (Welcome to the world Gabe), but those thoughts are usually passing and the prayers are not the focus of my time. What ever affects my world the most becomes the focus. Reading this girl's blog can help you refocus. Maybe even step back and see a few things. Also it helped me to remember something that I have to reremember again and again in the last month...I Always Have A Choice. It's seems like such a simple idea but to be aware of it all the time is an effort. See, over the last month there have been a number of things going on that I have needed to actively be reminded that You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It's your choice how you live your life. The BIG picture is more important than many of realize or remember. Don't get me wrong...the details are important. If they weren't, then I'd be out of job. The trick is looking and focusing on both at the same time and then balancing it out by piling on the good, the awesome, the friends and family, the encouragement, the humor, and the love.


Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. Matthew 6:34.
After all today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.