I'm a little late on my updates this week, but I absolutely wanted to start with a Sunday Scribblings Post. This week #221 is about life swap - something I would assume many people would think I'd be into.
I'm not. Not in this crazy season of my life, and not the ones I've faced before. Those seasons of life that I fought tooth and nail through to climb out of the trenches, or felt like I was drowning in a sea of doubt and hopelessness - those seasons are what seasoned me.
Some who have heard my 'testimony' are often rendered speechless or give me their condolences. In the past I would have taken them. There have been times I have longed to be someone else - somewhere else. There has been an undeniable and larger than life sadness in my life. The suicide of my mother marked the coldest and darkest season of my lifetime.
How many times did I wish to be someone other than me? I can't even answer that question. An answer I do have, is how fortunate I am to have been given this life. The value I place on my life is immeasurable. I was given a life to live by my God, and I am driven each day by a purpose that remains unknown - but still I am carried forward.
If we were given the ability to swap lives I know that I would absolutely be someone else today. Oh, the joys I would have missed! How thankful and blessed I am to have stayed the course and found that life leads you places you never expected to be.
For those who think the grass is greener on the other side - it very well may be, but don't let envy into your heart. Keep walking...I urge you. Greener pastures await if you just keep climbing those mountains laid before you.
Psalm 23 - 1 The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not want. 2 He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, 3 he restores my soul.
....and I wouldn't want to be anyone else.
1 comment:
I agree with you. I had a rough beginning and longed deeply many times that I could make things different. But now, in my 6th decade, I very much like who I am and where I am. I wouldn't be 'me' today without those earlier experiences. But I did find tantalizing the idea of doing a trade for a day or so! Marsha
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