Pink Cotton Candy

Mornings can be hard. I would much rather stay up really late at night and sleep in the next day then go to bed early and wake up with the sun. But, working at a fitness gym requires early mornings....soo I really have no choice.

Even though mornings are hard for me.... and I hit the snooze button AT least 3 times...I've learned to appreciate some things about waking up early.

#1. the sunrise is always AMAZING .... today it looked like pink cotton candy, YUM.

#2. I feel more alert later on in the day...not so lazy which happens when I sleep in too late.

#3. It's SO quiet on the roads... and it feels nice not to have any music going on the drive to work, but just spend some time with God before the day starts. My day always goes better when it starts out this way.

#4. I pickup Tim's coffee on the way to work....defenitly a highlight. I think the people in the drive-thru know me now :)

#5. When I get to work, all the ladies who come into workout are SUCH morning people that I can't help but force my tiredness away and TRY to be a morning person too. (sometimes it works, sometimes it doesnt).

Even though I PREFER sleeping in....and a perfect day would be to sleep until I wake up...WITHOUT an alarm....as awesome as my alarm is (it sounds like a carribean dance party....(my ringtones were very limited) ...I've been realizing more and more lately that life is so short and I need to try and enjoy every day for what it is. I just watched Charlie St. Cloud last night, and though parts of it were super cheesesauce....the main message behind the plot stood clearly. Our life can be gone in a moment because of a stupid decision we make or a random accident....we don't know how long we have to live....so we better live our life now. We don't get another chance...

When I look back on my life I would much rather know that I FULLY lived it out and lived a life of love to others, then realize how much time I wasted doing things that were SO pointless in the end. Though I may be crabby when I have to wake up at 5:30....I have more hours before me that day to live my life, to love my family and friends, and use the gifts that God gives.

Ecclesiastes 12:1, " Remember your Creator when you are young, before the days of trouble come and the years catch up with you. They will make you say, "I have found no pleasure in them." .....Solomon wrote the book of Ecclesiastes, and he realized that after all the things of the world he had experienced, they were all meaningless, none gave him great, lasting pleasure... except for God. Draw near to God while you are still young... Since we have no clue how long we have to live, why throw away a relationship with the God who has created you? He wants to be a part of your life, if you just let Him in :)