*Artwork by: Lisa Steinke
Your life is not measured by how many breaths you take But the moments that take your breath away.....
Its hard to remember sometimes to just enjoy the breaths that you take, the time you get to spend with your loved ones and the life that God has blessed you with. I know I feel that way at times. It is so easy to get carried away with the ways things are that I forget the way things will be. I get caught up in the shallow worries of life and forget to dig deeper, to see the blessings that I really have. It makes everything seem so shallow. All the stress that I may have in my life in incomparable to the moments that have taken my breath away. So many amazing memories that I have...each a treasure to be opened from time to time and re-live. A first kiss watching a coastline sunset with the man that I love. Watching my parents re-live 25 years of marriage at a celebration that I planned in their honor. Hugging my Gramma and thanking God that she is still alive to share in my life. These, and many other things, are the moments that take my breath away. These are the things that matter. It makes it seem all the more true that your life is not measured by the moments that you have, the breaths that you take, but instead by the moments that take your breath away. The things that make life worth living are not the every day stressed but the glimpses of 'amazing' that happen in between. That is what I have been trying to focus on lately. It has been so hard with the fact that I have yet to find that great job, heck, even a mediocre job that pays all my bills that I have found it hard to look beyond the shadows to see what is hidden. Yea, I may not have the job that I really want, I may have some bills piling up, and I may not be able to do some of the things that I want to right now but I am still blessed. I still have a boyfriend who would do anything for me, a family who are all healthy and love me unconditionally, friends who are always around, and I live in a country where I am free to enjoy the beauty of life in general. These are the organic things in my life I have been focusing on....and it works. I feel less stressed, I feel my personality beginning to go back to what it was before. In all, I feel more alive. I guess that may be why I decided to create a blog site. I have my secret thoughts that I write in my personal journal-there is something so special about physically committing my thoughts to paper-but I wanted a place that was a little quicker too. A place where my thoughts can just flow through my fingertips, to a screen for others to see. This is not a blog that I suspect I will ever share with people that I personally know. Some of the things that I feel I do not like to share with those around me. I prefer to keep my stress to myself and try to enjoy the time that I have with others without throwing them into the garbled mess of my life-after-college. Instead, this can be a place for me to think freely without the hazard of being judged for a thought. I appreciate that freedom. So, here I am. A stressed out, in debt, college graduate who loves Lisa Steinke art to the point of exhaustion, movies, dinners, walks, the beach, and many other things. The girl who is a semi-tree hugger, tye-dye hippy on the side, kind-of vegetarian. This is my life. Enjoy.
