Celebrate……Life

Celebrate……Life
Ignoring a ‘problem’ doesn’t mean that it will…..’go away’….
Southerners often have a philosophy that says, “Make the best of things…”

and this is truly a wonderful, positive attitude for life.
Yet not facing the ‘reality of the moment’ is……foolish.
Dealing with the ‘facts’…..head on…..working toward the best solution for all involved is certainly a healthy resolution to making life better on a daily basis….
Celebrating the ‘Good Life’ is a daily, continuous process….

solving yesterdays problems and issues is a must in order

to be free to ‘enjoy’ today….the present.
Sometimes I am so guilty of the nagging ‘unresolved’ issues that

I have placed on ‘hold’ in the back of my mind because I really did not

want to ‘face the facts’ at the moment….

Usually I have paid dearly for this ‘luxury’ for my mind will not rest until I have…..

’dealt with the problem’ in an honorable and peaceful manner…..to my own satisfaction….
I’ve gotta live with….me!
…..And truth be told, I’m the hardest person in the world to ‘get along’ with…..

sometimes I get ‘so mad at me’ as my nephew, Carlitos, says….
Finding that ‘anything that steals my ‘joy’ of life is truly problematic, I must at any given time depend on my faith in God to resolve many issues that are beyond human comprehension or ‘facts of the moment‘.
This is when ’prayer’ becomes ’the only answer’…..
My human reasoning just doesn’t work….for you see, God sees the ’big picture’.
Now this does not give me a ’license’ to fold my hands in ‘inactivity’

saying ’God will take care of it’……
From experience I find that once I have ’relinquished’ the situation, issue, problem to God...

and I quit wrestling with 'it' in my human mind…..

the current of energy changes in ways beyond my ability to understand ….

my part then becomes only that which I am held responsible and accountable…..

to God for…..

and not for the ’big picture’ which I had falsely allowed myself to believe……
It is then that I have…..Peace….
My ‘joy’ is restored…..I laugh and celebrate the goodness of God in blessing me,

yet again, with…..The Good Life!

Put your hand in the hand of the man who stilled the water

Put your hand in the hand of the man who calmed the sea

Take a look at yourself and you can look at others differently

By puttin your hand in the hand of the man from Galilee.