Will my life always seem everchanging?

A 5:30 AM sunrise!

I have just spent some time updating my blog feeds. There were some new blogs by my friends that I did not know existed. Some of these friends, I'm sure, will be taking over the blogging world with their quick witted blogs.

I love these colors

Beautiful Lake Michigan shoreline

Meet Trial and his good friend, Tribulation

Here is Tribulation's now wife, Martyr.  (Amber :)

My brother, Jacob

    

Cuddle bug-Gideon

Wild Child-Titus (4)

Love to make him laugh, Adorable-Michael (2)

The title for this post will make sense to anyone who knows me well, and the circumstances that are my life. Now, I know that many people have tumultuous lives and that it would seem normal to them, but I am fairly sure that many of my friends would agree with me when I surmise that I seem to be having a generous serving of "craziness" in my life. 

My Dad and his wife Cheri

I am perfectly at peace (Except for the usual week's time that it takes me to get over a new change to my routine :) with the course my life has taken. 

Mark and Rebekah (sister), soon to be joined by daughter Analise

However, I have wondered whether or not I might just get all of life's trials and tribulations dumped on me in five to seven years time and then live a quiet, uneventful life until I go Home, or is the last two years of my life only the beginning of never ending surprises (mostly unpleasant) that will send me to an early grave? 

Troublemaker-Jedediah "Jed"

Seriously, it doesn't look like it will be ending anytime soon.

I am not worried about any of this. It was just something that had me thinking. I suppose that once a person gets used to things always changing they continue to transition smoothly into each new phase of life. Being the fairly settled, habit forming creature that I am, I hope that this is all just a phase....  :)

Racheleah

my brain

 I have long thought that my mind works differently from the rest of the people living on this planet. The longer I live the more positive I am that I am right. Sometimes I feel like I can see things that no one else can see, but when it comes to the way my mind categorizes things that is when I know my mind is wired differently.

I have heard a lot about a person being able to train himself to write well, or learning a difficult instrument when that person had no previous talent. Someone who is educationally backwards can, with hard work and diligence, be able to reach the top of their class. I hear these inspirational stories and the main theme I hear is putting in the work, reading voraciously to understand something that you have struggled to understand, practicing and getting insight from others to help improve your practice.

These are all things that I know I don't take the time to do when I am come upon something that makes no sense to me at all.

I don't want the difficult things in my life to overcome me, I want to be the one who overcomes.
But how do I get past my own laziness and weak ambition?

By being the best Christian I can.

By being diligent in reading my Bible everyday. By seeking God all throughout my day when I am struggling with life and need His wisdom and strength to carry me through. When I do all of these things consistently I notice the difference. I find things so much easier to accomplish when I know exactly what I am doing. I will do a better job when I know what I am doing.

Because I know that God wants my best, I know that when I ask for Him to give me understanding He will.

~r

Popping in real quick!

I am alive, and I do plan on utilizing this form of communication more often. Things have just been busy since Christmas and the beginning of a new semester, but I think I can start a more steady flow of posts now. Keep your eyes and ears open for the next post.

~r