This is Life. Excited?

When the most exciting thing all day to happen to you is gluing papers together, that's life. When you really want to do something extreme but you end up in the same old routine, that's life. When it's school picture day and you just wear jeans and a polarfleece, and other kids wear designer clothes, that's life.

I'm not complaining. Well, okay, I am. But life is awesome.

When you find your whole life looking forward to senior year, and your senior quote, and all that, and then it comes and you really don't want it to end, that's life. And when one of the smartes kids in school suddenly becomes really cool to you, that's life. And it's life when you can't do anything about it because it will ruin everything. It's life when your friend writes on your locker and now it won't come off. It's life when you're in an ecology group with kids you would NEVER choose to hang out with. And when your pants get all wet and so do your shoes, that's life.

When your Dad works a job that could quite possibly get him killed, and your older brother is in Iraq, and your OTHER older brother is in Missouri where he just bought a guitar after you've been wanting one for over a year, yeah, that's life.

When your car doesn't start and you have to drive the massive bulldozer of a truck everywhere you go, that's life as well. And when said truck is low on gas, you have to fill it up because you have been driving it and because that's life.

When you do the treasure hunt wrong in French class because the directions are horrible, that's life. But when you get to try again tomorrow for a 100%, that's abundant life. And when your French 4 friends help you out on said hunt, though they aren't supposed to, that's abundant life as well.

When over 100 kids come to See You At The Pole, and it is incredible, and you just pray with them and sing praises to God with them, that is even more abundant life. When all you want is the least you get, oh man is THAT abundant life! When you spend Wednesday night at a Senior Citizen Center talking to old people and playing BINGO, that's abundant life. Especially when you find out that one of them survived breast cancer, one was in Pearl Harbor during the attacks, and one will turn 91 in October, that's abundant life.

When you are blessed in little ways all day, that's abundant life. That's the life I want. That's the life I kind of sort of have.

And I want more.

Is that wrong? God wants us to have abundant life. And all I want is what God wants.