Every moment is precious

 I was thinking just now about how every moment is important in our lives and how though it's true that we must all plan for the future for there to actually be one that if we don't live each moment then soon all those moments are gone and our lives are over.

So, I realized it is important to live in the now.

When I look at all the health problems I have been able to survive since 1998 with my heart virus what stands out is that I had to be in the moment each moment to survive whatever I was going through the last 27 years of my life.

Being Strong isn't just one moment it is all moments and what strength actually is is being able to get up each time you are knocked down by something in your life whatever it is.

 So, strength doesn't mean you never cry.

Strength means that no matter what happens you find a way to pull it together to get up and try again.

For me, the statement: "Hope springs eternal if we die daily" says it all.

For others it might be something else.

But, for me, dying daily and waking up a new person in the sight of God is what works for me.

Whatever happens: "Tomorrow is another day." which means "No matter how bad today is tomorrow there is hope for something better."

And because God is nothing but always completely unexpected, it might be important to allow God to bring completely unexpected things into your life.

For example, I never expected that the happiest times of my life would be after I was 50 years old.

This would have been counterintuitive to me at age 18 or 20 years old.

Then I wouldn't have expected to be as happy as I was from ages 30 to 37 either. As a child I expected life to be very dry and uneventful and boring.

But, my actual life has been pretty exciting and interesting but never really boring.

However, if your life is exciting it means you are constantly in a state of overwhelm of one kind or another and it's possible that many people couldn't deal with this level of intensity in their lives.

So, some people might just prefer boring so that they could live through it all.

But, for me, "LIFE HAS ALWAYS BEEN AN ADVENTURE!"

And this has always worked for me to see life in this way.

Life is a Never ending Adventure!

That's what life is for me.

By God's Grace