From Each Day A New Beginning, November 24:
“’If onlys are lonely.’ ~Morgan Jennings
“The circumstances of our lives seldom live up to our expectations or desires. However, in each circumstance we are offered an opportunity for growth or change, a chance for greater understanding of life’s heights and pitfalls. Each time we choose to lament what isn’t, we close the door on the invitation to a better existence…
The experiences we are offered will fail to satisfy our expectations because we expect so much less than God has planned for us in the days ahead…
I will breathe deeply and relax. At this moment my every need is being attended to. My life is unfolding exactly as it should.”
I’ve wrestled with my faith most of my life, always too self-reliant for my own good. But as I’ve watched my daughter succumb to heroin addiction, it has been a great comfort to me to learn how to harness a newfound belief in the power of something outside of myself, something I can turn to in my despair and know that something beautiful will come out of it. And it has: my whole life, and how I choose to live it now, is a miracle.