Celebrate Life

Today I got to shower some love, along with plenty of other people, on one of my best friend's who is pregnant. It was a very joyous occasion, full of laughter and smiles, ooh's and aah's, excitement screeches, and even a few shed tears. 

It's really cool to watch the whole pregnancy process. To see the belly grow, and to feel the baby kick, and where she is inside the womb. The body is a truly amazing thing, that does things that blows my mind. Things that the majoirt of times, we aren't even aware that it is doing. The fact that a little human can grow inside a female body is insane (and that's just one thing among thousands...). Babies are sometimes 20 inches when they are born...that was inside a female body! HOW CAN YOU NOT BE AMAZED!! A life...a living being, is growing, and developing....and it is a beautiful, amazing, God ordained thing. That we celebrate. And we should.

And yet....i hear, i see, i experience, all to often, people not celebrating life. Not celebrating the life that God has given them. We were once little humans being grown in a womb. Little embryos. We had no life. We had no purpose, until God brought us to be and gave us life and breath. And then He gives us that privilege to care and nurture and carry a life. Yes, for some people that can be having a child, but for every single one of us, it is to actually live life. The life we have been given. I see too many people not living life. I see so much grumbling because of the past or expectations of the future, so much negativity and skepticism because things haven't turned out the way we expected or wanted...im sorry but GET OVER IT.

Life is a gift. Life is a privilege. Our bodies are amazing and do amazing things. Our minds and our hearts are a part of that body. Take care of it, celebrate it when it does things right. Our life in this body will not last forever. That's the even more amazing thing! Our souls are eternal! Our bodies will eventually fail us and stop working. But we will have new bodies in heaven, eternal, holy, purified bodies. Imagine what we could do with pure, completely holy bodies?! Even more things to celebrate, especially being in the presence of Jesus!

I challenge you, and especially myself, because I fall into complacency and discontentment all to often, to CELEBRATE life! Find things to be grateful for and rejoice! 

Rejoice always. Again i will say, rejoice!