Living Life

So got hit with these verses from 1 Corinthians 7 this week...

17And don't be wishing you were someplace else or with someone else. Where you are right now is God's place for you. Live and obey and love and believe right there. God, not your marital status, defines your life.


God is such a punk sometimes.. How He can take a passage and make things so clear in your mind.. things that you have been struggling with, issues that you have cried over and worried over, and then *Bam.. wrap it all up in a few sentences and make everything so clear to you..

Wishing - something i do a lot of... wishing for this friendship or that, this relationship or that, this item or that, this snowboard or that.. this car or that.. this life, or that.. this holiday or that.. it seems my heart is never content, and here it is in black and white.. be content.. where you are.. with who you have.. Right now this is what God has for you.. So incredible to realize that right now, everything I have is what God wants for me for right now. it's my home.. it's the place God has made for me for this time.. it could be days it could be weeks, it could be months or years but it has been customized for me.. and I can take courage in that.

Live, Love, Obey, and Believe.. those are not just themes for another day.. they are for right now irregardless of my situation or how i think it will all turn out.. God wants my life right now to be an adventure to be lived .. not just survived, or held onto until a brighter day.. TO know love, even in the midst of lonliness, this is His desire for my life.

finally, just to know that God alone defines me.. it is not my divorced badge that i wear, but His love in my life.. His adopting me and giving me a new name and a hope for tomorrow. that is what defines my life.. May I never forget that..