Enjoy!!

Sometimes we just have to makeup our minds that we are going to enjoy life! Yes, some days it is just that simple for many of us.

As single women we need to make decisions that will ensure a better perspective on what we have to work with versus what we don’t have. We live in a time where women have many great opportunities compared to as little as 30 years ago. This day of technology has opened up many doors for us, and education wise the sky is the limit. It is common place for women over 35 to go back to college to start a new career. We are buying our own homes, income properties, cars, adopting children, traveling, presidents and CEO’s of our own businesses and nonprofits. We have it going on! Well, in a sense we do, because with all that some of us have, we are still not enjoying life, because we are still focused on what we don’t have.

I love to read, and I very seldom borrow library books for myself, because I read in bed a lot and some of the jacket covers are not the cleanest. I know, I know… that is my phobia. LOL!! So, I buy a lot of books, and I also by “Used Like New” from 3rd parties through Amazon and other used book sites. But even with all the great deals I find, I found myself not able to purchase a book I wanted a couple of weeks ago. What! I always have a book to pickup. In fact I have started using reading as a distraction when I feel stressed and want to eat. I pick up my book and read a chapter. It really has worked. So, the thought of not having a book to read, was a little scary. That would mean that I had to go through “book” withdrawal. Okay, so maybe I am stretching it a bit, but I read just about every day. But what this forced me to do was look at what I had, and you know what? I had a couple of books that were given to me that I haven’t read and a couple of books I picked up from the discounted bin at my local bookstore. I just finished one of those books and it was pretty good. My point being, I was getting nervous because I didn’t have the money to buy the next book on my list I wanted to read. But all along, I had something good that I had overlooked, forgotten about and taken for granted. Does this sound familiar? It may not be a book for you, it might be that you desire to be married, therefore you are not looking at what you have, but are focused on the fact that you are not married and there are no prospects. Maybe you want a new car, even though your car runs good and serves you well. It could be that you’ve had to cut your clothing allowance down or even out for this season, yet you have a closet full of clothes.

Sisters, make the decision that you are going to enjoy what you have and where you are as much as possible. Make changes where you have that option. But there are many things in life that we must wait upon the Lord for, and as we wait, we should not be sad, disheartened and lonely. We should be enjoying all that we have every single day that we have it. And really all we need is an attitude shift. A shift from an attitude of wanting to one of gratefulness for what we already are blessed with.

Enjoy: to have or use with joy; be happy with; take pleasure in. This is what we should be doing with our lives, taking pleasure in what we have, being happy with God’s greatness in what He has done for us, and live each day with joy.



Love & Hugs
Ponnie

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