Life as we know it

How many times do we take life for granted? I find myself over and over reminding myself not to do that, yet i always find myself once again doing just that. Until something comes along that knocks me on my behind and sends shock waves through my inner being. I have expierenced loss and death quite a bit in my life, and have felt brokeness and i have also felt the sting of death. But nothing i have come to realize is more important then being thankful for the life we have been given. Whether our cup to drink is bitter or sweet, it is our cup, and the creator, knows what is best for His creation. I am thankful that i have overcome much adversity in my life, and I am thankful for ALL of the people God has placed in my life to help me and guide me along the way. But even more so I am thankful for a God that loves me soomuch that He knows everything about me, good and bad and yet He still loves me. But that also challenges me. Because if we truly believed that God truly loved all of us and much as we tell people then our lives would look very very different. We would love without boundaries, we would care whether it was conveinent or not, we would see the world in all of it's brokeness and not shy away from it, into our little Jesus circles, but we would look for ways to help to teach to reach and to be God's hands and feet. Instead i see many of the christian circles i have been a part of shying away from the world rather then reaching out to it. I don't believe people should be taken on as projects, but i do believe people are to be taken on as family. We all sin we all fall short, maybe if we stopped pretending to have all the answers for the lives of the lost and just loved them where they were at they would want to know why we love them, and we would be given the opportunity to share the love of Christ. We don't have all the answers but we know the One who does. We don't need to pretend to have a holier than thou life. Because that is exactly what turns people off to christianity. They see people who look perfect act perfect talk perfect, and they then in return believe they have to be perfect. That is totally opposite of the God i know. He rescues sinners, just because we know Him as savior doesn't mean we are no longer sinners. We need Christ every day yo be working in our lives. So therefore we need to be honest and real with people, so that they may see God's work in us, and through us. So that they may not see us as doing the work but as God doing it. To Him be all the glory, for my life and for my story. Mat we live our lives as a living honest testimony to a God that is working and changing us every day.