Saturday, June 5, 2010

Makin a dollar bill and life fair!

I remember when I was young(not sure of specific age) someone had given us $1 bill. I put mine in this pink crocheted purse. Mom was taking us to the sweet tooth(which is the best place to get ice cream in murphy) and we could use our money to buy something. Now knowing the sweet tooth was expensive even back then, Im not sure what we were expecting to get with $1. I couldn't find my purse which had my money in it. I looked everywhere. So I decided, with what my child mind thought was only fair, was to tear Crystal's dollar in half so we would both have some money. What I didn't know was that wouldn't work. Not only was Crystal mad but Mom said that now it wouldn't be able to use to spend. So she taped Crystal's back and I ended up finding mine under the sliding coffee table. I think I ended up getting the taped bill whild having to give Crystal the non-damaged one.
I have looked at life this way before. When I didn't have something, I tried to make it even. Usually going the route that doesn't work. Sometimes life is not EVEN. We don't get what others may have. Im sure all of us has had a picture in mind at what our lives are going to look like. I have and if you really know me...you know its been the Fairytale route. Graduate high school, start college, get a degree in Education, become a teacher, get mariied, have kids.....and then what? As I was starting this path it looked like things were on track. But after I became a teacher...where was the boy? My sister had found hers and was already starting this journey. Yet afain it was not EVEN. Throughout the years as I tried to make my life "EVEN" I ended up just being miserable and always waiting. Boys that always seemed to start with a J (more of those stories to come later) I would always waste a year or more just waiting for them to turn their head at me. At some point I realized my life was going to be different and I was ok with that. I have been blessed by getting to do so many things. Travel(New York City, Jamaica, Hawaii, Kenya...) hangout with wonderful friends. So sometimes we have to go through what we may percieve as unfair or uneven things. But GOd really is giving a life fit just for you. Only I can fulfil the plan he has given me. "In his heart a man plans his course, but Lord determines his steps" Prov. 16:9

"For I know the plans I have for you..saith the Lord. Plans to prosper you, to give you hope and a future....Jer 29:11

3 comments:

  1. Wonderful story...great lesson that I, too, have had to learn. Oh, yes, I had a plan...and at 30 it was crumbling, actually shredding! And God's path led me here...and I am learning to walk in this new one. Your day will come. Enjoyed reading your blog!

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  2. Thanks Christy!!! How encouraging!!!

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  3. I'm loving reading your blog. I especially love how you tie your experiences in with purpose from God. You are such an awesome person and God can only have something extraordinary planned for such a special person. Love ya oodles.

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