Living Life To the Fullest

This week has been a difficult week for one of my best friends. Her mom has lost her battle with ovarian cancer. The past three years..but especially the last 6 weeks have been challenging for her family with each day bringing something new...sometimes exciting and sometimes devastating. Her family has stuck together and held strong to their faith, encouraging and inspiring those of us on the outside with their strength and peace through the storm. Through it all they never lost hope for miracles...for healing. And now, though she did not receive healing on this earth, Joyce is experiencing true healing in the arms of her Lord.

In light of these events, I just wanted to write about life and the celebration we should be making of it. We all live our lives in different ways. Some days are better than others, obviously. But I am convinced more than ever that we have to make choices everyday to live life to the fullest. Joyce lived life with gusto! She was a spunky and sassy woman who always made me smile! She loved her Chicago Bears...no matter what kind of season they had... and she loved her Lord! No matter what her cancer battle threw at her, she lived her life with expectations of milestones ahead. In her last week of life on this earth, she was determined to make it to her granddaughter's graduation celebration. Though she didn't make it physically to the party, she hung on to life until after the party was over. She was there for her family in spirit and they knew it! What a sweet testament to the strong, determined love she had for her family.

It's at moments like these, that I tend to take a look at my own life and evaluate whether I am living life to the fullest. Whether the life I live is being used to its greatest potential. As I mentioned a couple weeks ago, I've been reading more lately. Currently, I am re-reading a book I've read a few times. It is called The Prayer Of Jabez. Again, I am struck by the fact that God has so much more planned for me than what I allow Him to accomplish in my life. Because of fear, misunderstanding, or lack of faith, I often choose my own way. What kinds of blessings have been lost because of my choices? In that same post a couple weeks ago, I said, "I am choosing to live a life of difference. I am choosing not to be invisible." And now I know how to do that. How to make those choices a reality. I am praying The Prayer of Jabez everyday and waiting to see what God does. I do want my life to count for something. I've been longing for something more and little did I realize that instead of searching for it, I just need to sit back and let it happen the way in which God intends for it to take place!

It's really just a matter of faith. Faith, believing that God has something greater in store for me. So, using The Prayer of Jabez and the amazing example of faith I saw in my friend and her family in their own time of difficulty, I move on. You may wonder what any of this has to do with Shaklee and the overall content of this blog. Well, I am now understanding that it has everything to do with it. So, as Jabez prayed, I also pray, "Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from evil!"

So, there it is. It's all a part of my personal Journey to Wellness! I hope you continue to join me on my journey! And as always...."HERE'S TO YOUR HEALTH!"