One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.~Rita Mae Brown
as my friends playing settlers of catan with me today can attest, holes in your memory is a pain in the neck! kind of funny sometimes, but not actually fun. swiss cheese for brains - it's frusterating!
No wise man ever wished to be younger.~Jonathan Swift
yes, but.... today i feel old. not in spirit, but in body. i had so many years where i was sidelined with fatigue, on 'standby'... i feel like i'm only a few years older than that 16 year old girl that got so sick and wiped out and 'lost' 10 years of her life....not 32.
never mind the 'wasted' years.
someone told me today i looked 24. which was sweet! and helped me to feel like the still young person i guess i still am.... except that i have about.... wow.... 20 plus years of... 'stuff'... under my belt, stuff that should have never been in a young person's life.
but i have .... 8 years of a live lived for God under my belt, too. and one day, that will faarrr outweigh the 20-some years of.... a life lived for self, for flesh, in the world.
and i totally believe that a persons TESTIMONY - of where we've been, and where He's brought us to - is the biggest tool God gives us for ministering to this lost world, and ministering to hurting people.
if i had a time machine, and i could go back into the past to change things..... i wouldn't. all that *crap* is the manure God fertilized the ground of my heart with, in preparation for Him. who am i to mess with God's perfect, predestined plan?
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