I have been reminded lately about the blessings in my life that are totally out of my control. Me and my wife were out with some good friends tonight and were talking about our pasts and how we got from there, to here. As I was going over this with them, It put me into remembrance of how it all sounded so made up! It wasn’t, but it sure didn’t sound like it could happen to just an average guy like me. My life is so blessed now. It wasn’t always: my educational background, the mess of my life when I was younger, drinking, drugs, job hopping, divorce, financial mismanagement all pointed me down the road in opposite direction.

So how did I get to this point? In the last decade my life has been so blessed! There is no way it has anything to do with the strength and brilliance I put into it. Oh, I am not saying I was laying around on the couch the whole time, but I certainly did not orchestrate any of it. My past was way more effort, and way more disappointment. My life now is slowing down, being faithful to what I am doing, and being led in my decision making process. As an example; doing things at slightly different times than everyone else. One hour difference in eating out, or driving on the freeway, has a major impact on stress reduction. Slight adjustments are equaling big changes. How is that possible that things can be so different?

Even when I mess up now, the results are completely different. Same person, different results. It is so unexplainable – naturally speaking. But I know why, and I know how. It is something outside myself. My life has been transformed by the saving grace of our Lord, Jesus Christ and He gets all the credit. End of story. Without that, my life would be toast now. When my life became His, he became responsible for the results. If you make a mess of your house, and your wife cleans it up, and then someone comes over and gushes about how nice the house looks, what do you say? I hope you say something like, “Don’t thank me, thank my wife, she did it”. Well me life is cleaned up and when someone notices, I just tell them who cleaned it up. He is the one who get’s the accolades and the credit, not me. I hope you find the life changing grace that can only be found in Him.