Friday, March 9, 2012

The Perfect Life

What is the Perfect Life? To me it is a Mother, Father and two or three children...all working and playing and shopping together...
I see on Facebook all the Families, the parents, the grandparents, the people I grew up with who post pictures of their kids and grandchildren...the eat together, they play together, they shop together...
Since I do not have children of course I think the perfect life consists of children,
Others who have children think the perfect life is without children (especially during the terrible twos) stage
In reality there is no perfect life...
For over 32 years I shopped with my Mom, now she is not there I have no Mother or daughter to shop with. But sometimes God does not give us what we want but what we need. I may not have a Mother or daughter but I have Friends and Sisters and Cousins who are all willing and fun to shop with...not what we want but what we need..
My husband has even gone shopping with me (although I shop at Sams for the food samples and he shops to get out of there with or without me)..
To me a perfect life would be a grandmother, to be able to go to childrens school programs, to be able to go to the Birthday parties, to have a preacher recognize us as grandparents ...God does not give us what we want but what we need. Even this is what I want maybe all I need is a HUG from a neighborhood child, or to see someone else grandchild and see the two together...to have the kids in the park pet my dogs and see the smile it brings them, heck at least I will never be grandparent age!!
One thing my Mom did teach me is about the Perfect Life...you see there is no perfect life until we go to Heaven...If we were happy and content down here we would have nothing to look forward to and we would not want to go to Heaven to be with Jesus...
After All Jesus give us the contentment to live the unperfect life and God is preparing for us the Perfect Life with Him forever...