Reality

If you have have cable (or satellite) TV, you’ve come to realize life is seldom like a Hallmark (Lifetime, Ion, or Up) movie. All relationship, holiday, spiritual, work challenges are seldom completely and happily resolved (for all parties involved) in a two hour time span. Our existence is often messy, unpredictable, and confusing.

Sometimes what we get in life is not what we wanted or expected. There are crossroads in everyone’s existence where we make decisions that affect the entire scope of our future (or health or family issues may require us to).

Did you ever wonder how things might have gone if you had chosen path B instead of street A? Whether that is marrying someone else, choosing another job, or being of another faith.

Colossians 3:23 (NLT) says, “Work willingly at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather than people.” It’s important to include God into your current (and future) decision making process.

The lesson I need to learn from the above verse is that the actions I do for my family, a work boss, or others is actually being performed as a child of God for Him ultimately.

This puts a whole new spin on everything. Life may not be a Hallmark movie, and it could be that deep in your heart you’ll always wonder what another life choice might have been like.

God does not expect us to constantly bully ourselves emotionally over lost opportunities that we should have taken. All He wants us to do is to make the best of all that He has given us in our life today.

Hold God’s hand tightly, and allow Him to be the best Friend you’ve ever had. He wants to be there for both your good and your bad in your life. Proverb 18:24 (MSG) says, “Friends come and friends go, but a true Friend sticks by you like family.”