Find A Reason to Celebrate

I don’t know about you but I love celebrations.  I love going out with friends and family and having a reason to celebrate.   But I’ve realized something.  I’m in Tennessee and everyone back home is going on with life without me.  What’s up with that?  It sometimes seems a bit cruel.  I mean I miss out on having Christmas with my family, celebrating my best friend’s birthday, and whole bunch of other stuff.   Then I realized today (yep, just barely today) that there’s so many things in this world to celebrate.

Some of us, and I’m included, might get caught up in ourselves and forget all the great things that God has given us.  We get sidetracked on the things of the world and forget the beauty of what we have.  But what comes of this?  When we forget to be thankful and grateful for what we have we lose a sense of happiness.  We lose view of the things that matter most.

There are so many great things in this world that are ours.  God has given them to us.  Just take a look around and see.   Each of us has a family.  Not all families are perfect, but isn’t it great that God has put people in our lives who love us and care for us?  That deserves a celebration.   We all have a beautiful world to live in.  Just sit down outside and count all that God has given you.  I promise you won’t have enough time to count everything.  Isn’t that a reason to celebrate?   Even the trials that come into our lives can be worth a celebration.  I’m a true believer of the words of the music artist Kelly Clarkson “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.”  I’ve seen firsthand that trials really do mold us into something better than what we were before.    There are so many reasons to celebrate life. 

Find a reason to celebrate today.  It doesn’t have to be your birthday to make today a day to remember.   Just count your many blessing that God has given you and celebrate.  Now that doesn’t mean go out and party, it means give thanks to God and help someone find their reason to celebrate as well.