One life
A thousand opportunities

How many experiences do you think that you could possibly experience in this one life? I keep seeing the horizon as expanding before me.....stretching, calling out to me.

I am not always happy about the things I have done in my life, but that doesn't mean that i didnt' do them. They make me who i am. Sometimes when i am down at the point of some point of my life i keep a simple thought in my head. I do not give up. You must keep going forward in life, sure stop and smell the roses sometimes but don't stand there looking for too long or you will loose self in the past. If you find yourself falling try to catch hold of the ground. If you do fall, stand up quickley and wipe off the dirt, and continue on your way. Too many people of this world stop when they fall, they look to see if there is someway to prevent the fall after it has happened. People will stand there for a long time....not forgiving, being upset, being embarrassed, trying to find their pride, searching for bandaids, all in all living in their past and not seeing that their future is drifting by.

It is not easy to stand up and admit your faults, get over it, stop blaming someone else and continue on your way......and i am certainly not saying that it is a slice of pie for me either, but i do find that there is something else i could be doing than wallowing in self pity. When they say that this life is too short, they are not saying that to fill a silent void, they are saying it because it is. At the end of it all.....when you sit there with your great-grand children what is it you will say to them. What stories will you tell. When your children come to you for advice will you have some ideas or will you stand there and say you never had that experience because you weren't able to live your life through some pain? We all hurt, we all have scrapes and gouges, we all have searched and not always found, we all have been blind and all of us have seen. But have you experienced?
There are so many lives to lead in this one life, are you willing to try them all? Or are you comforable in the life that you are living?
You are telling me that i make no sense, I can tell you think i am writing gibberish, but i tell you.....there is more outside this house, yes i know, it isn't always reasonable, and it is usually impossible, But if your heart is in the right place and you are willing with all your heart and mind then be the explorer you want to be. With that i don't mean go to other countries etc. I mean expand your mind....live outside the box. Whether it be reading about something you have never learned about, or doing something you have never done. It will be different for everyone.

May God be with all of you †

Jessie

Hi Jessie, You had stopped by my journal and left a message and I decided to check out your journal. I LOVE it!! I really loved what yousaid about standing up after falling and just standing there, not going anywhere due to a miriad of things, unforgiveness being one of them. Wow, I think God is trying to tell me something. Tomorrow will be the last day in a Bible study I am attending and we have been going through the book "Women Making a Difference in Marraige". Unforgiveness is somehting i really struggle with in regaurds to my dh. And I really feel that i have just been standing here, just standing as life is passing me by. I feel that God is saying, "Do things my way and you can experience LIFE" Why does it take so long to listen? I love your site and will be bookmarking it. Kerri

hi there Jess
visited yer places but couldnt find the guestbook area lol
anyway looks neat and i'll leave sum ice lol hugzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz