Life's Lesson

ISo I was blog stalking and came across this blog A Happy Girl and she has this idea of Blogember. I decided I wanted to try this. I think I sometimes let life get in the way and I get lazy and don't blog. Even if I have things to blog about.

I think of the greatest lessons in life is faith and trusting in God. (As you can see from my many faith posts)  Faith isn't just hoping for something. Its acting on the faith and that's hard sometimes. Especially when that faith requires you to trust in God's timing and not your own. I remember multiple times this year I questioned myself on whether graduate school was the right decision. I couldn't see the full end result. It took faith to quit my full time job to go back to school. Faith and trust in the Lord. Thinking back on the times in my life where I've had to have faith in the Lord's timing I realized, Those situations didn't end bad. They are happy endings. The Lord provides ways to happy endings not sad ones. If we knew that we would always have a happy ever after following the Lord's plan, then why wouldn't we always follow His plan. One I think because we're human and we think we know best. (Not always true) and two, yes we will get the happy ever after, but the journey is tough.

I have a quote hanging in my house that my aunt made, which previously hung in my Grandpa's family room. It has Jesus Christ and says "I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it." Life is hard, and it was meant to be. If it was easy would we learn anything? No.  But even though life is rough, it's worth it. The hard journey that's makes us strong is worth it for eternal life.

So I guess what life teaches me is to have faith and trust in God. It's not always easy. But how great is my joy when I act in faith. I hope I can continue to act in faith and trust God. Trust in His timing. Trust that He knows what is best.