Each Day A New Beginning

       

So as I have written on here before every morning I wake up I read 4 different daily devotionals. Today one of them I was reading I thought I would share:

Each Day A New Beginning

August 17

Life is not always what one wants it to be, but to make the best of it as it is, is the only way of being happy.

 Jennie Jerome Churchill

We are generally so certain that we know what’s best for ourselves. And we are just as often certain that what we think is best will guarantee happiness. Perhaps we should reflect on all the times in the past when our wishes didn’t come true-fortunately.

Did any one of us expect to be doing, today, what we each are doing? We may have expected children, a particular kind of home, a certain career, but did we really anticipate all that life has wrought? Addiction, and then recovery from it, was probably no tin our pictures. But it does fit into the big picture. The happiness we experience today probably doesn’t visit us in the way we anticipated a few years back. But it is measured out according to our needs. The choice to be happy with what is, is ours to make, every moment.

I can take life as it is, and trust that it is just right, just what it needs to be. The big picture guarantees me lasting happiness. Today’s experiences will move me a step closer.

            This was not the life I had planned for me. No where in my dreams did I think that I would be an addict, go to prison, and struggle. But this is my life. I can either be depressed that it is “so horrible” and not what others are doing OR I can realize that I can make it better and move on.

            I for one choose to move one. This might not be what I wanted but this is what I have been given and I intend to make the best of it!