It is not very often that I run across a quote in a novel that stands out to me. However, I just finished reading this wonderful novel listed above by Nicholas Sparks and several pages from the end, I read the line above. And it caught my attention, probably because that line very much describes my life right now.
If someone asked me what I do today, I would say my job is "wife and mother". Even though my profession is a musician, being a wife and mother in this period of my life far outweighs anything else going on.
But the second part of the quote is what really inspired me: "she was...in love with the life she lived." What a beautiful line. How many of us can honestly say we're in love with the life we live?
Go ahead and be honest with yourself: are you?
I believe a huge part of loving your life is looking for the opportunities to flourish right where you are. I live away from my mom (very far away, about 800 miles), and for the longest time, I wasn't content with my life because I didn't live close. Finally after several years, I stopped fighting myself and began to set goals and dream about what could be right where I am in Florida. And that is when good things started happening and momentum began to take me to greater levels of personal and professional success.
One of my favorite quotes is "Bloom where you're planted". You may not feel like you have the resources around you that you would like, but you can always take what you do have and make something with them. Wherever God happens to have you in this moment of your life is where you are supposed to be. It's easy to fight it and hope that things will change, but I challenge you to bloom where you are. You can flourish, even in a desert season.
Can you imagine how much better our world would be if more women rose up and decided to truly love the life we live?
My wish for you is that you would find contentment in the here and now. Live today. It's all you really have anyway.
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