Today I pulled up my facebook out of pure boredom, I scanned through my newsfeed and within a few posts I found myself sifting through high school graduation photos. Even though I graduated over a year ago, I'm finding myself over a year later, still envying my friends who got another year to make their high school experience the best. And it's not that my high school experience was even awful. I've just found ways for my life to seem not as interesting as others.
This is not to say my life is boring in any way... Instead it's quite the opposite. I am now a sophomore at Baylor University where I am studying psychology in hopes to become a school counselor or family lawyer. But, there's still that envious feeling that I didn't trust my instinct when it mattered. These moments slip in and out when I feel like I've missed a big opportunity because of an impulsive choice. The biggest thing that I constantly remind myself is that God has a plan for me and that plan will work itself out in the end.
I recently saw the movie "God's Not Dead" in theaters. First off: it's incredible! I loved every second of it, I highly recommend it to ANYONE of any religious background. The part that really dug into my brain was a conversation between a man and his mother. His mother was suffering from amnesia and she was slowly deteriorating. Her successful son came to visit her on account of his sister. He sat there in anger watching his lifeless mother as she stared blankly into space and criticized her strong beliefs and faith for God. His life was supposedly perfect: successful career, lots of money, riches, immediate happiness while his mother prayed her whole life, believed and put every effort into being the best person she could be as a servant of God. Yet, here he sat, healthy and rich while his mother was dying before his eyes. While he questioned it, he didn't feel the need to change his behavior towards others, nor did he give his sister's text message a second thought about God.
So what can we take away from this movie? Life is crazy, it has unexpected turns and twists and not every moment can be joyous and happy like this generation seems to think it has to be. But in the end God has a plan for everyone and as faithful stewards of his, we have to trust that his plan will bring us more riches and happiness than we could ever imagine.
Ever notice that social media only showcases the extremes in our life? We are the ones who are in control of what we post and what other's see, so we mask our profiles to make people believe what they want to about us. Crazy enough, friends and followers still feed off the mask of other's lives and compare it to their own... Life can't be comparable. Each person is unique and each person has faults. Everyone messes up, every day can't be a perfect hair day or a day where nothing goes wrong... But everyday can be a day of celebrating God and celebrating how great it is to be alive and on this earth embracing the present and anticipating the bright future ahead.
The song I chose for this post is one of my favorites for this summer season. It's by a new band called Oh Honey. This song is called "Be Okay" and it's so perfect for this topic.
This song hits it spot on! I honestly have nothing to complain about: I have a great life, loving family, amazing friends, world class education, incredible opportunities, and God on my side. And with all of that my life is more than OKAY.
My challenge is to find the positives in everything. Don't be the one scrolling through facebook envying everyone else: live for you! So what if you can't have the cute dress in the window of your favorite store? Or if you can't have the latest gadget that the media pushes its consumers to get. Life is amazing and God has our plans drawn out on a sketchpad. Trust in him and things will work out in time :)
