They get brighter. They last longer.
When you fall for a boy with the perfect grin, it never occurs to you that it might be contagious...
But the past two years have been nothing but grin-inducing, brain-exploding, heart-bursting, warmth and love and joy every day.
Truly - when I'm asked to try and give up negativity for the Lent season I hop on board! Not because I'm never negative - I totally have the same problem everyone does with misplaced energies and focus - but I have nothing to be negative about. I know real joy. I have true and unconditional love and so much laughter in my life. I cannot think of a better way to celebrate joy and gratefulness approaching the Easter holiday than to reflect positivity and His glory! To be truly grateful and complete in the blessings and the life I have. As Pastor Justin said, "Imagine what Nashville would look like in 40 days..." Imagine what the world could look like!
We have all had opportunities to experience pain and failure and those lead to choices: to grow stronger and find hope in the future or to become bitter and full of fear. Though fear is something humanity cannot escape, I am choosing to let go of fear and live with hands wide open for the new and wonderful things that God has for us. To walk unafraid. To be the person I was created to be alongside the person I was created to be with as he walks in the purpose he was created for. To live obediently and POSITIVELY - a new way of existing in a time of new everything. Though I consider myself a survivor and am grateful for the strength I gained from the pain and failure of my past, I know it is not easy. I know that as we move forward I will need to focus and find reminders and be a reminder. But just imagine...
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