Doughnuts!

What a great day!

I received a box of 12 doughnuts today from my boss at work. They were for my birthday that happened to have slipped by them last week. They felt guilty for missing it so they gave me doughnuts. I love doughnuts. But not a dozen. It isn't healthy.Though I could, I wont. So I got to class and offered them out. There are still 5 left as we sit in class, whoops now 4.

Its funny how the little things in life can make a day so much better. And how the small things in life can make some people so upset. I have come to learn this semester how an unbalanced life can lead to an unbalanced attitude. I have been able to witness this in the people that surround me day in and day out.

When I say unbalanced life. I am talking about, the unbalance people have in what they say they believe and their practice of that belief. When we don't keep a balance of practicing what what we profess we become unbalanced. This semester has showed me how some people say they are called to one thing or another but they dont really show any fruit of a calling and their attitude toward people and life is like roller-coaster. One minute they are nice and sweet with the telephone operator and the next they are hanging up the phone on them in a flustered hurry while saying this and that about the person on the other line, because they didnt get everything they want.

I believe the practice that is so needed everyday in order to maintain a balanced life is diving into the word of God. When we take time out of the day to read anything it takes us to another place. but when one takes time out of the day to get reading the word of God it takes us to a whole other place then just regular reading. It is a manual for life, a guide, driven by the very will of God.

If we dont take our time to read this life manual then we cannot know how to direct our lives and it becomes as if we are blindfolded in a field of corn.

As I watch these unbalanced lives in front of my very eyes my heart breaks for them. They have this misconceived idea of what Life is, what Christianity is and what Church is.

Now dont get me wrong I am not a perfect balanced life, I have had my share of times where my life has got in the way of God's life for me. But I do know how it also feels to have that balance in my life. It is a great feeling to know that this world is temporary and God is forever, and everything that surrounds those to thoughts will be a-okay!

I would hope that we all strive to live a balanced life. One that brings glory to God in everything that we do. One thats puts Jesus in the front of our mind. And one that lives unselfishly before others.

May you be blessed today!