How do you live your life?....

So, I haven't been on here for awhile... I've had a birthday and a surgery since...

This birthday didn't 'effect' me as far as feeling like I'm getting older and any of that mind game drama. It was a day to celebrate that I had been born and that I am still alive! I'm blessed! Any day I wake up alive (which is everyday so far..ha ha ha:) I feel blessed. I was honestly blown away by how many birthday wishes I received on my facebook, emails and texts. I lost count after 150! That made me feel very special that that many people would take the time to wish me well. I feel blessed.

 Life is all a matter of perspective.

You can choose to tell yourself that you're getting old and your life is half over and look at the wrinkles starting to form or the grey hair that appeared over night... or you can choose to be thankful that you are alive to actually see those changes happening to your body. Because fact is, if you aren't getting older... you're already dead! I don't want to be 'already dead'.  I want to be alive to enjoy life and to see my children grow up and help them find their way in this life on earth. To help them set goals and dream of what their lives could become. I didn't have that. I didn't have someone to help me set goals and to dream of life. My life would have turned out entirely different had I had some direction given to me. Some encouragement would have been nice...

God wants to be that for us, but the truth is unless we allow Him... he gives us free will.

People only know what they are told. When we are born, we are a clean slate. We all start out the same. It's during our day to day lives that our brain retains information and we react to different experiences depending on our personalities and  become who we are. It's weird to me to think that there are millions of people in this world that have never been told about Jesus and His love for them in this world. That they are living their lives without any knowledge of Him whatsoever. That's hard to imagine. How can those people go through their daily lives of struggle and problems without knowing that their is a God that created them that loves them and cares about them? Sad to think...

It's one thing to be told about Jesus and Him dying for us and NOT believing. But it's entirely different to have never been given the chance to decide.

You don't know what you've been missing...because you were never told... lots of people living their lives not knowing... that's sad... but I find equally sad, is that so many people live their lives having been told, but live as if they haven't.  That's just as much of a horrible tragedy if not worse.

What do you do with the information you've been told in your life? Do you believe it without ever questioning it? Or do you disbelieve it without ever questioning it? Do you research to find the true answer? Or do you just ignore it and act as if you were never told? Do you live your life with any knowledge you've gained? Or do you just simply exist day to day waiting to die?  

How do you live your life?...

Have you ever thought about how you are living your life? Have you ever questioned what you're doing and why you are doing it? Have you ever questioned if you should be doing something different? Are you happy doing what you do? Are you happy living in the dark if you are? Or are you happy living in the light? Do you share your light with others? Or do you dare not for fear of what they might say?

How do you want to be remembered when you die? Have you thought about that? Have you thought about what you want to be remembered for? A legacy? Did you impact others with their lives? Did you make a positive change? 

Are you living the life that you were created to live? Sharing with others what you've learned to be true? Or even sharing with others your personal mistakes so as to spare them the pain of making those same mistakes? Because good can come from bad?

Just a few things to think about... how are you living your life?...