Experiences

Our lives are filled with experiences of all kinds. In the picture three of my grandchildren are together, the fourth is out of the picture but present, at The Melting Pot in Myrtle Beach. I can remember Forrest saying this is the best meal I have ever eaten. I have had a lot of those kinds of experiences in my life. You know the ones where you suddenly realize that this is a first and you will never forget it. Some experiences like that motivate us to create a future that will allow us to have more experiences like the amazing one that just happened and some others motivate us to avoid that one again at all cost. Experiences are teachers when we are able to learn from them. In fact we don't have anything we haven't learned by experience, and we don't have anything we're good at without repeated experiences. Some repeated experiences however teach us wrong lessons, like not to trust or not to love, or not to try, or to work to much. One of the great God given gifts of being human is the ability to step back from our life in the midst of our life to assess our own life. We can choose to continue in the direction we've been going or even ignoring our experiences we can choose something new and different. I've seen so many people trapped by their past, so many people locked into patterns that will only perpetuate a flawed path. A well lived life is an examined life, and in my experience is best examined in the light of Christ.