The Worthwhiles Of Today

I have been driving the younger three girls around a lot lately to be at their grandparents while I work and then out to where Brad and the other girls are for their mission project in the evening, so we have had some interesting conversations in the van...we talked about curse words and why we don't use them verses words we just choose as a family not to use, but aren't technically cussing...just more descriptive or harsher than necessary for a conversation meant to build into others instead of tear them down.  Kassi, Danielle, and Karly are pretty concrete thinkers, so if something is wrong....it is absolutely wrong for everyone.  It can be a challenge to teach kids that there is absolute truth....but, also areas where people should make their own choices and that not all our choices will match everyone else.

Then, today the girls were voting on whether they wish they could be little again or be moms :)  Then they voted on who just wants to skip the school years and be moms....it was unanimous....they either want to be really little or be moms, but no one wants to be in the HERE AND NOW learning what it will take to go to the next stage of life.....why do we tend to think yesterday or tomorrow is always better than today? I think it is just something about human nature to feel like this...

Instead, we should be SO CONFIDENT of the worth....our worth as an extension of our Creator's worth... that we can rest in it and enjoy each day for what it is.  I'm really talking to myself with this....I have plans....hopes....expectations....and I let all those things make me anxious because somehow I start to equate my worth to the successful accomplishment of all these things.  When I allow that anxiety to overtake me, I do not see all the worthwhiles of today.

For a while now, I have been challenging myself not to miss out on THIS DAY.