Calming the Crazy

Ever have those times when life just seems to

go crazy?

We're having one of those times.

In short, I've had my gallbladder removed,

Mackenzie diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes,

Cole has a bully at school, Billy stretched/tore

the meniscus in his knee,

Billy had a car accident (no injuries)

 and yesteday he spent the

day reparing the door at our rental property

after someone broke in Saturday night.

Thank goodness no one was home

and nothing of real value was taken,

well, except for their security!

All of this in the span of about

6 weeks.

If you take my gallbladder out of the

running then all of this in the last

2 weeks.

It's been a tad crazy

to say the least!

So, I've been doing my run down of

all the things I do to keep myself

feeling positive. A little cleaning and

organizing are happening. Not sure why I do

that. I think it's just a way to control my

own environment. Listening to great
music like the videos I posted a
couple of days ago.

Lots of Bible reading and studying.

There's lots of positive things in there!!

Imagine that! :)

Today I'm rushing out a few custom

jobs. I am still not up to speed with work.

Mackenzie is home today after a long night

of drinking juice to keep her blood sugar up

high enough. Yeah. I said things were a bit

crazy around here.

Really, this is all just a challange.

I'm not worried.

Don't get me wrong,

it's not like we haven't had tears

and emotion over Mackenzie's

diagnosis or frustration

over the other things that have happend

but they are just temporary things.

Times like this are when we need to

remember what our main goal is in life.

Where are we going? Where are we in

the journey to reaching the next

level of achievement?

I think, just when we're reaching the threshold

of getting to that next level of merging our dreams

with our reality, we're challenged. Like, a last

push to make sure we really want it

and can handle it, once we do

cross the threshold. As a parent would make

sure they aren't giving their children too much

to handle with more freedoms in life.

With more freedom comes more responsibility,

just like living more of your dreams brings

more responsibility. I think the more success

we have in living our imagined life the

more caring, compassionate,

 humble, helpful and loving

we need to be.

That is real success in life.

So we are challenged to create in ourselves

these kinds of characteristics before we

get the honor of living our dreams.

I hope I am allowing enough of myself

to be changed to cross over the

threshold before me.

As much as I am not inviting

more challenging situations to come

I would never trade being challenged.

Challenges make us better. Stronger.

Smarter. And ultimately

lead us to our

dreams.

Here's to crossing the threshold!