Opportunities

I want to thank you today, God, for the opportunities that we have in our lives.  Today I'm going to be renting a moving van, loading it up, and driving it 500 miles to the place that will be our new home.  It's going to be a lot of work, but I do the work with gratitude for the ability to make this move--we can afford the truck, we can make a change that we know is necessary for us, and we're limited only by the limits that we place upon ourselves.  Our world is full of opportunities that we don't take advantage of, and I'm grateful for the fact that my wife and I are willing and able to make a change in our lives that is necessary.

Not everyone can pack everything up and move, of course.  There are many limitations in life that are real and unavoidable.  But over and over again I see people with great chances in their lives turn them down or avoid them because of fear of change or fear of being alone.  I've seen students turn down full scholarships to wonderful colleges because they didn't want to be too far from home.  I've seen people turn down the chance to live in beautiful places that are much nicer than their current homes simply because they're comfortable where they are.  What a word, "confortable."  It seems like such a nice goal, yet it's so destructive to us if we want to learn more about life and living.

So God, today I just want to thank you.  Thank you for the open doors, thank you for the ability to look for those open doors, and thank you for the life that I'm living.  Please allow me to see all of the opportunities that come my way, and please allow me to have the discernment necessary to make the most out of all those opportunities.