I saw an ad today that said there was a twenty-word script. If you said this script every morning, then you could manifest all these amazing things into your life and get everything you ever wanted. Sounds great. Except if that were really true, then wouldn’t everyone already know about it and be doing it? If there really is a magic pill that would make everyone’s life just amazing and bring everything they ever wanted into their life, then wouldn’t all the new agencies, all the governments, and everyone else be telling everyone about it?
There is no magic script. There is no magic pill. God doesn’t even promise that this life will be filled with all good things. I would love to believe that this life could be all sunshine and rainbows, but that’s just not how life works.
My great example is that I have been blessed to have found the love of my life. My husband has shown me that love can be so immensely wonderful beyond my imagination. Every day I know him, I find that I love him more. Yet, I realize that we aren’t immortal and there’s a high likelihood that we aren’t going to die at the same moment. That means that sometime for all the joy I feel now in loving him, I will feel a sorrow beyond measure when death separates us. I know this and yet I choose to love him more and more because the sorrow I will feel is worth the joy I feel in loving him. We have told each other several times the worst day with you is better than the best day without you. It’s true.
A world that is filled with pain and sorrow, but also love and joy is better than a world without. I don’t want to live in a world where I don’t know that I am blessed because I don’t know any difference.
When I was a little girl, I thought my parents were the greatest parents in the world. I thought that all fathers drank lots of beer and yelled. I thought all mothers told their children stories to make them feel afraid of the world. I was blissfully ignorant of the world. When I grew up, I realized that my parents were hurting me, and they weren’t who I thought they were. I wouldn’t want to go back to being blissfully unaware even if I could. I lost the illusion of my perfect family, but I gained the ability to go out into the world and find myself, my husband, and a wonderful life. God gave me free will and a knowledge of right and wrong because He didn’t want me to walk through the life blissfully unaware. I will feel pain and sorrow, but I will also experience great love and joy. I am so thankful that God believes in me enough to give that gift to me.
I don’t want a magic pill, a magic script, or anything else that is going to numb me to life’s experiences. I want to experience it. It’s a wonderful gift. All of it. That’s why I am here.
My faith saved me. May God’s peace reside in all of our hearts.
