circumstance.

:a condition that affects what happens or how somebody reacts in a particular situation.

Most everyday we are faced with circumstances that we would not prefer, if it could always be mountain tops and rainbows we think...that would be the perfect life. Yet I stop and realize that when you live in mountains or one beaches or even in corn fields it all becomes normal and that is life. So really the mountian tops become what we choose them to be...if I don't look up and stop for a moment I could go a long time without even being aware that I am in mountians Humm I think what I am trying to grasp is why we let our circumstances change our attitudes and actions toward life...of course our feelings are apart of our flesh so those become hard to change but not the way we react or let them affect us. Today I am struck with a reality that not many people are content. That if some people had the chance to turn this dial or close that door they would and then....things would be complete but what if we took a look at each day for what it really is that in each morning we could realize our solid purpose for life: to be rooted in and loving our Father who has taken our aweful lives and given us...wow...oh so much His grace and forgivness and Abundant Life. What if we looked at each day through the eyes of the Gospel that we live because He died we Only have life because He has given His life! Isn't it just so incredibly beautiful and so much more yet we so easily get stuck and trap and distracted by what? Look into your own life I don't know what tells you to not choose the Abundant Life Jesus has today for you, perhaps it is bills that are unpaid, or relationships that are not so well. Or for me it is unperfect grades and listening to lies that I don't have what it takes. I am not sure where you stand today but I ask you to maybe stop and read Psalm 46 it is about being still and knowing God. Know God reigns today and take a step back and rest in that before being overwhelmed by the lies of this world. He is with you today...
"When you pass through waters. I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when yo walk through the fire you shall not be burned, and the flame should not consume you. For I am the Lord your God,"-Isaiah 43:2-3a.