What I’m saying is I think life is staggering and we’re just used to it. We all are like spoiled children no longer impressed with the gifts we’re given- it’s just another sunset, just another rainstorm moving in over the mountain, just another child being born, just another funeral.
-Donald Miller, “A Million Miles In A Thousand Years”
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jpaulnorton // November 4, 2009 at 9:03 pm
For me, I have been spending too much time dwelling on the negative. Saying as I go, “I hate how this is so hard, so boring, so frustrating, so expensive…” why can’t this be “less time consuming, more fulfilling, without so much stress.” It is hard to be grateful when you are seeing the world like that. But, light always shines in the darkness.
keithward1213 // November 5, 2009 at 3:40 am
I think sometimes I have ideals set out in my mind as well. The reality is only disappointing me because I’ve often lied to myself and said somehow or somewhere it’s better or easier. Most of the time it involves something that I think money could cure.
If I had the money to make things easier, I would probably wish for the struggle again. Never satisfied!
Holly // November 5, 2009 at 5:50 am
oh my word. thank you for sharing that quote. the story of my life right now is working on being content with what i have, my relationship with the Lord, the here, the now. i get wrapped up, too, in not paying attention to the things that are actually worth my time, but rather investing my energy in things that absolutely are out of my control. and i agree… i tend to think more money is the cure to a lot of my problems.