I am currently on a journey of the mind if you will. I am learning to be fully content with my everything in my life. This is not an easy task because it is very easy to look around and wish for a better situation.
I know for me it seems like I am always looking for something better and I pass over what I already have in my life. Which if I am honest, things are really good. Are they exactly what I want in life? No. But when has life ever given us exactly what we want.
God is in control after all, he places us where he wants us, he deals us a hand of cards so to speak. We can either play those cards to the best of our ability or we can fold. What are you going to do?
I'm going to play the cards I'm dealt.
Maybe you yourself need to learn to be content. Just think about your current situation, put your wants to the side for a second and ask: "Is it really that bad?" I think you will soon find out it is not, and if it is that bad, then some changes need to be made, but I digress.
So instead of looking at the green grass on the other side, take a look around where you are standing and realize that the grass is green where you are. Discontent is no way to live, it will eat you from the inside out.
God is in control, accept it, work with it, enjoy it, ROCK IT! It is pretty sweet to know that God places you exactly where he wants you, there is freedom in that.
So don't worry about what you don't have, but celebrate what you do.
-The Adam out.
Monday, March 30, 2015
Friday, January 2, 2015
The Journey Known As Life
We are all on this journey called life. Ya truly never know where your life is going to end up. In my experience it seems one thing leads into another, knowing this person leads to that person. In my life that is how it has gone, and I've just been along for the ride.
I feel I am on the cusp of a new path. I've been stuck in my current situation for a while now. And to be honest, I have not been enjoying it for sometime now, for about a year and a half.
You see I love music, and in my current job as a Children's Minister I am not able to use it to it's full extent. I do get to use music, but not like I would want to. You see, music is my passion.
For a year and a half now I have been trudging through my existence, One routine after another. I guess I had just accepted that this is the way things were, so I tired my best to just suck it up and get over it. Don't get me wrong, it is not that I hate my job and life is a Simple Plan song, it's just I see that I am headed down a different path. I am switchin horses in the middle of the stream, as the old cowboy saying goes.
There is a saying that says, "If you find what you love to do, you'll never work a day in your life."
To which I would respond, BULL CRAP! A job is a job! If it was something you "loved" doing than it would be called something different, like a hobby or a leisure pursuit. Now don't get me wrong, I know the meaning of the saying, what it is speaking to is, finding something that you were made to do, something that fits you. Something you are good at and enjoy doing. But let's get this straight, you will have to work, oh yes you will! Even if it something you love to do, there is always a rectal exam in every job, as one doctor so eloquently put it. How true! There are always things in a job that you will hate doing
So here I am feeling like a whiney little kid "I DONT LIKE MY JOB! BOO HOO!" I just know that for some time now that I have not been very happy, I see it, my wife sees it, my friends see it and my pastor sees it.
Where is life headed? I sure don't know. But I am trusting God to work it all out for his good. I am following his direction, praying a whole lot!
I am just trying to pursue what I feel like I was made to do.
-The Adam
I feel I am on the cusp of a new path. I've been stuck in my current situation for a while now. And to be honest, I have not been enjoying it for sometime now, for about a year and a half.
You see I love music, and in my current job as a Children's Minister I am not able to use it to it's full extent. I do get to use music, but not like I would want to. You see, music is my passion.
For a year and a half now I have been trudging through my existence, One routine after another. I guess I had just accepted that this is the way things were, so I tired my best to just suck it up and get over it. Don't get me wrong, it is not that I hate my job and life is a Simple Plan song, it's just I see that I am headed down a different path. I am switchin horses in the middle of the stream, as the old cowboy saying goes.
There is a saying that says, "If you find what you love to do, you'll never work a day in your life."
To which I would respond, BULL CRAP! A job is a job! If it was something you "loved" doing than it would be called something different, like a hobby or a leisure pursuit. Now don't get me wrong, I know the meaning of the saying, what it is speaking to is, finding something that you were made to do, something that fits you. Something you are good at and enjoy doing. But let's get this straight, you will have to work, oh yes you will! Even if it something you love to do, there is always a rectal exam in every job, as one doctor so eloquently put it. How true! There are always things in a job that you will hate doing
So here I am feeling like a whiney little kid "I DONT LIKE MY JOB! BOO HOO!" I just know that for some time now that I have not been very happy, I see it, my wife sees it, my friends see it and my pastor sees it.
Where is life headed? I sure don't know. But I am trusting God to work it all out for his good. I am following his direction, praying a whole lot!
I am just trying to pursue what I feel like I was made to do.
-The Adam
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