I am blessed :)

So life is moving so super duper fast! But you want to know a secret?

  I am loving it and enjoying everyday! 

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But here is the thing: I have not always loved living for the day. I grew up in a family FULL of planners. 

My family likes to plan everything and way far in advance. It is probably due to the fact that we have such a huge family, and it is hard to coordinate that many people....so we have started to rely on the same traditions every year, which I love. But I sometimes wish we could go by the spur of the moment, but I know that is not likely to happen with a giant family, half of which are children. So I have learned to enjoy being the child of a planner and I was content to start my journey into being another planner...until recently...

So if you read this blog, you probably know me and my man....and if you know anything about him he is not much of a planner. I mean he will plan when it comes to his work, but he doesn't like to plan to far in advance. And when we first started dating I was not used to such a foreign concept. 

Not planning in advance, not deciding what we were going to do for Fourth Of July, next Christmas...or even the upcoming weekend! 

Crazy talk! 

But then I asked him (I always ask him a lot of questions....and am always 100% honest with him and he is with me) one day why he doesn't like planing or talking about the far future so much...and he said... because to many times the future changes for what you have "set in stone" for it, so you should just learn to live for the day and enjoy what you are being blessed with!

ok....so I don't think he said that verbatim but close enough...

And that has changed something in me (yes it may be that I am around him so much that it is inevitable to not be like that) but nonetheless I have changed. I still like to plan some things...and I hope I have rubbed off on him a little and he likes to plan a little more, but I enjoy not knowing exactly is going to happen. And I enjoy living for each day, and remembering each moment is a blessing and if you don't stop and look around and "and smell the roses"  you will miss what God has given you. 

I thank God for my man everyday, not only because I believe God put us in each others lives for a reason, but because he teaches me something new all the time. He has taught me to be open to new things, to open my heart, and to enjoy each moment because right now moments are what we have.

Why think of what can happen and lose focus on what is happening?

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I recently found an old WOW CD of mine (yeah I was/am the cool kid that bought the WOW CDs and the NOW ones as well) and have been listening to it quite frequently and I found this song by Natalie Grant and it just speaks so well to what I am trying to do in my life now. 

So enjoy :)

Sittin' in my room staring at the wall
Wonderin' about the meaning of it all
Why is it this thing called life
Has got me goin' crazy
So I open up your word and let it speak to me
The purpose and the plan that you've designed
Is clear to see, and I believe

Chorus:
I'm gonna live for today
I'm gonna follow in your way
I'm gonna let my little light shine
Like there's no tomorrow
I won't worry about the past
I know my future is intact
So I'll choose to live my life one way
I'm gonna live it for today

You told me not to worry
About what lies ahead
So I am gonna focus on today instead
Making every moment count and counting
Every single blessing
I'm gonna set my mind on the
Here and the Now
This is what I want my life to be about
And this is How...

Chorus:

I'm gonna live for today
I'm gonna follow in your way
I'm gonna let my little light shine
Like there's no tomorrow
I won't worry about the past
I know my future is intact
So I'll choose to live my life one way
I'm gonna live it for today

So I hope you live for the day...don't worry about what can/could happen. Focus on the blessings God has given you, because trust me there are millions of blessings in your life. 

He blesses each of us....you just have to look, some may be small, and some may be huge. 

But trust me the blessings are there! 

He knows what will happen, and if he wanted us to know everything he would have made us to be able to tell the future...but I don't know about you but I am not a gypsy lady, living in a tent with a traveling circus telling people's fortunes....I can not see the future, and frankly I don't want too. If you could see what is going to happen what fun would life be?

Jeremiah 29:11 "For I know the plans I have made for you," says the LORD. "They are plans for good and not disaster, to give you a future and a hope."