Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through.
– Anais Nin
Life is a journey. New chapters are constantly being written, the beginnings and ends unknown until they arrive and pass us by. Our lives are a sequence of scenes and acts, in which we are actors and actresses, each working together to the masterpieces we are writing—on an individual, communal, and global scale. Each scene is laced with foreshadowing we cannot perceive, mysteries we cannot understand, and each scene gives rise to the next. Our lives are comedies, dramas, soap operas, tragedies, and thrillers. Each of our stories is filled with surprise twists and turns, leaving us outside the realm of control over our own destinies.
I have come to view my life as a story. As I look back through all the years I’ve walked on this earth, I come to view my life as an unfolding epic where new actors are born, where nobodies become stars, where stars become nobodies, and where the future hangs in the balance in my decisions here-and-now. There are high points. There are low points. There are beginnings and endings. There are detours, short-cuts, long-cuts, and dead-ends. There are times when life is going at a lightning-fast pace and I can barely hold on; and at other times, life plods slowly along, like a giant sauropod aimlessly ambling. There are times I want to weep, times I want to laugh; times when I am filled with energy, vigor, and passion; and times when I want nothing to do but curl into a fetal position and cry myself to sleep. In all of the events of my life, in the good and the bad, I am being transformed. I am being molded and shaped, by both my life experiences and by God. At times it feels like nothing is happening; but as I look back on the past, I can see how I have grown, matured, and developed. And I can see that God really did know what He was doing.
I’m not sure what the future holds. I’m not sure if I want to know what the future holds. Some days trusting God continues to be a struggle; other days, it comes easy. In the end, we all must do what a friend recommended so long ago: “Just sit back and enjoy the ride.” It’s a wild, crazy, unpredictable ride, with tragedies and heartbreaks, with thrills and excitements. We never know what’s around the next curve.
2 comments:
Wooow man… that is mazing… I just couldn’t agree more with the way you see life… I have always though that life an adventure. It is actually written on my profile. But, it is an adventure that we start everyday on the bed, waking up full of dreams. We are like tourist, but protagonists of our journey, which sometimes doesn’t understand the strange language people speak; referring to people’s ideologies and behaviors. During our journey we see a lot of ruins of fallen dreams and seas of faith becoming deserts of oblivion, but we just have to keep walking following the maps given by God. Even we have maps, we don’t know what’s coming and how our journey is going to end, but that is what makes it interesting.
This is good stuff man, I hope you understand the way I explain my ideas, as u surely already know, English is know my first language…. Keep it up.
Btw. Thanx for passing by my blog, I just answered back you post about journals lol.
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