It has been WAYYY too long
I have found myself wanting to post something on here quite a bit. I have fallen out of the habit but things still pop in my head in "blog" form - HA!!
I have a lot rolling around in my noggin and I end up working them out in there instead of letting it out.
There are a couple of things I am just going to throw out there and see where I go from there.
First - we spoil our children too much. As a society I think. Personally I think it stems from being selfish. We don't want the consequences of having to deal with not giving them what they want. Sure, we should nurture and love children, but they need to be taught responsibility and appreciation. The United States doesn't do that enough and I think that we are in for a big surprise when the children of our nation become adults. Just my opinion, but that is what I see regularly. Polite, mannered, well behaved (not just being a kid kind of actions) children are few and far between these days. I know I was a self absorbed teen, but I knew how to say excuse me and please and thank you.
Second, I find it sad when people look back at their "glory days" in high school and think that was "the life". Teen agers have no clue as to who they are, or who they really want to be. Their brains aren't developed enough to know all that. They step into situations they are not emotionally prepared to handle, and NO ONE seems to want to or know how to help them avoid them. Sometimes I look back at my teen years and all the emotional drama and I am so glad that God took me down the path that he took me. You all I had no clue - NONE!! Sometimes I get a glimpse of where I am going and it is pretty great, and scary, and unbelievable - but I know God knows what he is doing. You know what else? I am glad that in my ignorance I took that path. I most surely could have stepped too far to the right or left and my life would be just miserable. Dumb stupid mistakes that could have in the shoes of someone I wouldn't want to be now. Thank you God for taking me where you have taken me.
I am constantly amazed at who I am now. Sometimes I get focused on what I don't have and that is crap, makes me unhappy with who I am - that is bad. I do like to see where I need to improve, it hurts and it is hard and hits me in my pride mostly, but it is good once that change has occurred. I get impatient with where I think God is taking me. I don't want to be too old when things start happening. I don't want to hurt, physically, when things start rolling. I am excited about how God is going to accomplish what I feel he is doing and leading me to. I can see myself just smiling at people who knew me then and at their reactions when they find out what I am doing, in 10 years any way. I am happy to leave my past in the past, because it helped make me who I am. Sometimes, I like to take it out and reminisce, but then it is good just to put it back and leave it there to pull out again sometime to help me remember the good work God started in me, and where he is leading me.
Thank you God for making me who I am, for what I am, and for leading me where you would have me to go.
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