Most of us really enjoy all the great days in life - the births, the graduations, the weddings, the promotions, first house, first car, first million (I know I'm waiting on mine - how about you :) We dream about what our careers will be when we're little kids. Who wouldn't want to be an astronaut or a doctor, a scientist or the President of the United States? And as we got older, we modified those dreams to nurse or architect, city council member or engineer or whatever (even the President of the United States!).
We all picture the house on the hill with the white picket fence, two perfect children and a wonderful, happy marriage.
We can't wait until our children are old enough to speak, then old enough to walk, then old enough to go to school. Then we find ourselves going misty-eyed at the thought that we're going to lose them to college and then to a new family.
We all love the big days in life - myself included - but those days are not really what life is about.
Life is really about going to work every day so that we can earn enough money to afford that beautiful house on the hill.
Life is really about dating a succession of losers and almost-the-ones and has-beens as we wait on our perfect mate.
Life is really about making sacrifices in order to get that medical degree or accreditation to start your own business.
Life is about spending time with your children doing homework, going to parent-teacher conferences and even shopping to make them healthy meals so that they can get good grades and get into a good college.
And life is really about working on your marriage, seeking therapy if necessary, compromising, negotiating and vowing and working to keep the fire burning so that you stay married, 10, 20 or 30 years.
Life is really about the small moments.
The moments where you make a decision to do the right thing because it's the right thing to do.
The moment where you buckle down once again to attack that pile of homework even in the midst of taking care of a household and two children.
The moment when you go to your second job so that you can afford to send your children to a better school.
The moment when you pass by the car dealership and keep driving that old Honda so that your household can have internet or heat or, heck, even food.
Life is about the little things, the little choices and the little decisions that all somehow magically add up to, well - YOUR LIFE.
What types of decisions are you making today?
Are those decisions adding up to the type of life you'd like to have or are they detracting from the quality of your life?
Think about it.
Real hard.
And decide that living life is about more than instant gratification, temporary satisfaction or taking shortcuts.
Decide that living life - for you - means a life of fulfillment, satisfaction, peace and wholeness.
And live that type of live today.
Blessings be upon you today....
