What do we do with the Lemons

When we get served lemons what do we do with them? It is time to make lemonade. It is time to see that life will not always be easy, in fact there are day that it will be down right hard. That people do not do what we want them to do, because they are not us. We can run away and hide from the very things that cause us worry and doubt, or we can embrace them today, we can see that even when there seems to be no hope, that we can create hope in the darkest of places. It is when we see that life is not about what was, but what we make it; is when we are able to see life has meaning, that life is so much more then the things of the past, it is about now.

We tend to want to do the things that seem easiest to us, but at what price are we willing to pay for those things? To want a full life full of potential it takes time, it takes being willing to grow and to change, it takes making hard choices. We are so quick to look at the easy choices, we are quick to say what can I get out of it. Isn't it time we stop thinking what is the easiest way to do things and see life will sometime take some hard choices.

Life is full of changing and growing and it is time we embrace the fact that in order to move forward, that we have to be willing to change, that we have to be willing to grow. In our relationships, it is about putting the one we are with first. The more we let go of what we want and embrace what they want, the more we learn what love is. Did you hear that? I think it is probably one of the hardest things to understand, but the more we stop searching for what we want and see what the one we say we love wants, the more we surrender to the fact that, that is what love is. It is probably a very difficult concept to understand, but if you look at our kids, what do we do for them? We do that very same thing, we put their needs before our own, we make sure they are loved they are fully understood, we fight for them and we would die for them, just the same thing is with the one we say I love you to, we are willing to lay down our lives to them. We are willing to surrender our wants for them, love is surrender. Love is seeing that life is not about ourselves, but the ones we are with.

Today when you say I love you, think about what that 4 letter words means. Life takes growing and changing are you willing to grow and change, or are you just looking for the easy answers, the easy way?