that's life...

While watching re-runs this holiday weekend, I heard an old Frank Sinatra tune, "That's Life".  The song has no particular history or interesting back story.  It is just a song...But given my state of mind at the time, it just set me to thinking as some people say.  Actually it is the second verse that serves as inspiration for today's blog. 

" cause this fine ol' world it keeps spinning around"

I found myself worrying more and more about the impact of my life, my ability to help my family as well as the traditional worries of not enough money, aging parents, home repairs, debt and our own illnesses and physical impairments...in otherwords just not feeling all that peachy...The bottom line upfront is that life is just plain hard and it is not fair.  The world just keeps on spinning.....  And well, I guess that is just that way  it is ... I don't like it, but hearing Sinatra on this this particular verse  "...'cause this fine ol' world it keeps spinning around..." is a stark reminder that the world is going to do what the world is going to do...with or without me...

So I thought well if that is the case, then  I should just take time-out to just "be" and let everything else take care of itself.  I will deal with tomorrow when it gets here...right now I don't feel so good and want to sit in it for a while....I am not going to pull myself up by my boot straps, chin up and all that...because I don't have to...

I think it is  perfectly ok to just stay in this moment for now...not forever...I do not know what is coming next...none of us do...so why should I pretend...In this moment I realize what matters is that God loves me just the way I am...and the love of my family is warm and comforting...I will be ok, regardless of this fine ol' world's spinning around. 

I am working very hard to learn to live in the present moment, to recognize God's work in and around me, in and  through those near me.  In those moments, I do see God working, and I feel His presence among those I meet along the way...one step and one day at a time...