Do you ever really think about how amazing our minds are? They can help us, hurt us, and sometimes they can run straight away from us. I know from experience that from time to time we allow our minds and our ever-emotional heart to have too much power. We indulge in the misery that the two of them together can sometimes deliver. But did you know that we don't have to? It's true believe it or not. It turns out that the only things that make us miserable are the things that we allow to make us miserable. The sad truth is that I have
let many things make me miserable
many times. I could have used this bit of info at the start of my teens and my life would have been a lot easier!
However, I suppose that's how the Good Lord plans things. The lessons that we learn during our foolish years are lessons that mold us to be wiser in the years that really matter. The only responsibility we have is to decide when we are officially ready for our years to matter. Yep, turns out that decision is up to us as well. An amazing thing happens when we finally decide that we are ready for our "wiser" years; right at that very moment we become wiser.
If it hasn't happened to you yet, be patient; it will. It will be when you least expect it. It will hit you all at once one morning when you are washing your face and beside your eyes you see a few lines that you hadn't seen before. You will cuss them for showing up and reminding you of the years that are quickly passing by. And when you look again you will see the lines that trace every laugh that has ever forced your mouth to smile. You'll sigh that such happy moments must leave an imperfection behind.
The true test, however, is what happens when you look back one more time before starting your day. You will know that the "years that matter" have arrived for you if you simply laugh at how ridiculous you've become.
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