Press on.

Here I am, asking questions out loud that have rolled around in my head since the time I was old enough to think. Questions that seem to be “shaking things up” for people in my life, questions that make people think for themselves.

I’m in my late 20's, and have had what most people would say was a “semi-typical” life. I'm thankful for what I've had....it may have not been the best or the most healthy, but I'm still thankful. Three parents, one siblings, a public school education, some college, a marriage, three wonderful kiddos … and somehow I was taught to believe that life simply found a resting place and then if I was good would just slide on into eternity someday.

Wow.......thank the Lord for opening my eyes to see life in a real way, to understand more truths.......to not pretend I'm living in a fairytale any longer.

What I know now is that we are put on this earth to do much more than leave a carbon footprint. We have somehow been lulled into the thought that everything’s gonna magically be alright, and that if we’re good enough, or follow the right rules, there’s a great pot of gold (or crown) waiting just beyond the lines of life and death. We have become comfortable, mundane and really boring.

What I mean to say here is that things are really never what they seem. That this trip, this life, this gift was meant to be lived and shared and savored with people we love and who love us. That each day screams at us to live in the “presentality” of it all and that we do a disservice to everyone around us when we choose to do any less.

Now, instead of cruising through what I thought life would be, I am seizing every moment. I am laughing more at the good things, and crying more at the injustice. I am putting behind me the opinions of those I really don’t want to be like anyway, and focusing on those people that God has graciously given me to love — my children, my family, my friends who are not afraid to walk with me through the thick and thin and the fellow Christians who will walk into the unknown with me.