My online devotional today focused a lot on encouraging others and lifting people up.  I knwo some of you find this blog encouraging, and that encourages us!  Thank you for that.

Right not, we’re literally gettin through the muck.  I can’t describe to you what goes through my mind every day except to say that it’s a constant flutter of fear, love, disappointment, hope, uncertainty, imagination, draining, dreaming, confusion, faith, despair and passion.  And that’s just the beginning.

I may have said this before, but looking in on situations like our before it happened to us, I thought, oh my word-how would you even get through that??  For example, Kev and I watched “50 First Dates” last night.  At the end, we said “Oh my word-can you imagine doing that day in and out” and then we both said “But you do that to be with the ones you love”, and you just do.  When something like this happens-and in some forms, it happens to everyone of us in different situations at different times-when it happens, you just DO.  You don’t have time or energy to focus on giving up, you only have time and energy to focus on pushing ahead.

Your world no longer revolves around where you’ll go on your next vacation, whether you should trade your old car in on a new one, what movies you want to see this week, what new restaurant you want to try, what pair of shoes you absolutely must have, where you should get your hair done, making sure you’re wearing the right brand or label, making sure you have the right title behind you name-none of that matters.  Coming from the generation that literally has the options to HAVE IT ALL, I’m telling you, none of IT means anything!

Yes, I’m materialistic at times-who isn’t?  I like to shop, I like to have THINGS.  But the more I think of going back and packing up our little apartment, I think-wow, there’s so much STUFF we have that means nothing.  Yes, there are sentimental values to things, but honestly, right now, all we want is each other.  And there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that.

Frankly, if we could give it all away without the financial repurcutions of that, we would.  Getting through the muck of things means looking at al lthat you do have and embracing it wholly.  So I hope you embrace your loved ones today and not worry about what THINGS you do or don’t have.  Because none of that ever really matters.