Blessed Is This Life

I have started to very much enjoy my alone time in the car when I have been traveling place to place, this is addition to running has given me a great amount of time to think and meditate on things that have occurred or are currently happening in my life.  Yesterday while making the journey from Green Bay, WI to Racine, WI, I was jamming out to Brett Dennen (LOVE, if you don't know it yet, you will too) and his song "Blessed" came on.  His lyrics always tend to get me going on some thought process, but this one in particular, "Blessed is this life and I'm going to celebrate being alive." Take a moment and think about it...

I have so much that I am continually blessed with, so why not celebrate every day?!  I have faced trials in my life that have left me scarred, but those scars have become a part of me.  They have made me who I am and I have no doubt that something positive has come from each and every trial.  Though it may be incredibly hard to see at times, trial is a blessing, an honor.  God trusts that we have the strength to endure.   Cool right?  In times of suffering we are being fashioned into the image of Christ who suffered beyond anything we could fathom.  Now seriously, kind of exciting right?!

This next week will be full of laughter, team building, exhaustion, and a ton of fun.  I have been blessed to be a part of an incredibly passionate group of young people brought together by the non profit, Students Today Leaders Forever.  In the upcoming days, college students and high school students will combine for camp.  Let me tell you, seeing these high school students and recent high school graduates come alive is one of the most amazing things anyone can ever experience and I am so very excited to be a part of it!  Look out for this generation, they are pretty incredible :)