Life is not meant to be taken for granted. Your quality of life is not meant to be taken for granted either. Not everyone gets life and not everyone has a great quality of life.
Everyone who lives has a purpose. God has made a purpose for everyone. We may not know what that purpose is until we get to it but we have a purpose. We have a reason for being here. We have a reason for every season we are in.
Every season has a purpose. Some are to give a sense of comfort. Some are to grow us. Some are to teach us. Every season has its ups and downs. There is a reason though for each one.
It’s really easy to take life for granted when it is going well. It’s easy to believe that nothing bad will happen or that life is going so well that nothing bad is around the corner. It’s easy to coast through life when life is going good and not thinking about God or the fact that you are a miracle just being alive.
Everyone is a miracle even if you were told you were a mistake. Even mistakes have purposes. Even if you were told you were a mistake, you are a miracle and you have a purpose.
Life can be hard or it can be good. But hard is not bad, it’s just hard. There is nothing wrong with hard. THings in life that are hard usually need hard work to get to them. The best things in life don’t generally come easy. They usually require hard work.
We take life for granted a lot. We take it for granted when we don’t think about the fact that there are some people who are really suffering whether that be physically or mentally. We take life for granted when we don’t thank God for all He has given us and done for us. We take life for granted because we don’t always know what it’s like to not have the greatest quality of life or not know what it’s like to not want to live.
I used to take life for granted. I used to expect certain things and expect it in my time. I used to not even think about what others were going through. I used to never be thankful for being alive until I didn’t want to be alive anymore.
I choose life. I chose life years ago. And I choose life day after day. When you get to the point you would rather be gone then alive, you really don’t see that it’s a miracle that you are alive and that you have a purpose. You don’t see the amazing path God has placed in front of you especially if you are not a Christ follower.
Choosing life is not easy when you don’t want to be alive. I am alive because of an incredible encounter with God. Without that encounter, I surely would not be here. But that day He showed me that I was worth it.
Now don’t think that that is when I stopped taking life for granted. Yes I was grateful to have been shown that I have a life worth living even when it doesn't feel like it, but I really didn’t start being truly grateful for life until the middle of last year. I would go through a lot of the days just going through the motions. I did the same thing every day. I didn’t try to make my life better. I didn’t try to get better all the time. I went through the mundane. I went through the motions. I wasn’t truly living and when you aren’t truly living, then you aren’t truly grateful for life and in a way taking life for granted.
You take life for granted when you are not thankful and grateful to be alive.
I expected to have taken my life by my 16th birthday not gonna lie. I did not expect to live past 16 let alone get to 21. This year on my birthday meant I had lived 5 years longer than I was expecting yet I had only just started truly living last year. I was grateful somedays to be alive but there were still a lot of days that I was lost and felt like I didn’t have a purpose, especially when I was struggling with my mental health. December 2019 through the beginning of May 2020 were some of the lowest points in my life and at some points I didn’t want to be here anymore. I wasn’t grateful to still be alive. I might’ve even been a little resentful that I was still here and struggling so much.
Now it is different. There are days I still struggle of course but one thing I make sure to do no matter how bad the day or how good the day is, is thank God for being alive and putting air in my lungs and a beat in my heart. Life is too short to take it for granted. Life is too short to not truly be grateful to still be alive.
It is easy to get wrapped into life and what is happening around you and not even think about how precious life is. Life can be gone in a moment's notice. Life can be gone in the blink of an eye. It can disappear in seconds. We need to live each day to the best of our ability and not take having another day for granted. Also not taking for granted our friends and family who are still alive.
Life is precious. It is easy to take for granted. But we need to strive to be thankful and grateful to still have life and for our friends and family still being here.
Hold onto hope and stay strong.
Madison Rae <3
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