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Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
Couldn’t watch TV yesterday.
This isn’t a stretch for me because I rarely watch it anyway.
But I hear about it on Facebook, Twitter and emails.
And it comes as no surprise. Humanity always wants to help during disasters.
Haiti.
Devastation. Suffering.
Faith. Hope.
What good does God do when disaster happens?
You have an answer, right?
Blogging, if you’ve ever thought about doing it, really challenges you to discover, deep down inside, what you believe in.
And when you post it on the Internet, the whole world sees it.
It really forces you to commit to your beliefs. And even better, it challenges you to rise to the behavior you preach about.
It’s transformed my life.
Now, God has whispered to me that others may also find this transformational tool helpful. You can do it. 🙂
But do you want to?
What else do I feel guilty about?
Sorry, I’m going to need more time to think this through. It’s awkward.
If I go with a gut instinct right now, it feels like the reason this topic got started in the first place was because I feel so blessed.
I mean, more than any one person deserves.
“And you feel guilty about this?”, someone reading this is asking.
But the blessings listed here and the others not listed, are the blessings we all have.
I guess, as I write this it becomes clearer, there’s something about the way I structure each day that allows me to be nearly fully present every moment of every day.
It’s almost like an addiction. I think about it all the time.
Being able to walk, think, read, smile, drive, teach, eat, breath, love, cry, laugh, get dressed, spend money, go to Church, have friends, Family, a job, sunrise, sunset, sight, hearing, desire.
Where does it stop? It doesn’t. Our blessings are infinite.
I can’t be the only one on the planet that thinks like this, can I?
After re-reading yesterday’s post, I’m having second thoughts about whether to continue down this path.
Why?
Because it feels like it goes against being humble, and it feels very awkward.
What is driving me, compelling me, to want to share this, is so that you see that I have no special privilege or talent.
I just work really hard. Hard work is the only antidote to life’s challenges.
And even then, it’s not 100% guaranteed.
But one thing is guaranteed. If you don’t try, you will never know.
What makes humans feel guilt?
What makes you feel guilty?
Know what makes me feel guilty?
This week, my son and I have taken several sunset walks. We end up in our back yard. A really big back yard. The sun has set, and now it’s twilight.
“Son, look around. Do you see how much space is here in this yard, from one side to the other?”
He says, “Yes.”
“I’m not saying that other sized yards are better or worse. I’m just saying that Mommy and Daddy worked really, really hard to make this yard possible.”
For something like seven years, Cheryl and I spent, what seemed like a majority of our weekends looking for a big yard near Walt Disney World.
The first 15 years in Central Florida, I worked every weekend, and had either a Saturday or a Sunday off, but never both.
And on that lone weekend day off, we combed the area north of Disney, south of Disney, east of Disney, west of Disney.
The result? Nothing. Year after year. Nothing.
Until one day….