Etch-A-Sketch Please

It's funny how some things are allowed to be engraved into your mind. Life's not an etch-a-sketch. You can't make a pretty picture and then shake it off, although sometimes I wish you could do that, it's almost impossible. There are some things that stick. Somethings that never are erased from your memory. Like a really bad sticker that's been on the surface for years and you all of a sudden want to replace it. Impossible. If anything, it will leave an imprint of where it use to be. This makes me think about the types of things that I surround my life with (or surrounded my life with). Are they meaningful? Will those things enrich my life? Or are is it all trash and a waste of time?

I'm thinking back on some of the decisions that I made in my life and I'm wondering what life would look like if I had decided something else. I know, sketchy territory (no pun intended). But wow. Everything happened the way that it was intended to happen. No doubt that I wouldn't be experiencing the things that I have in front of me if there was any change in the sequence of events that led up to the now.

Life really is like the butterfly effect. One little change and the future can be completely different. But what's crazy is that we have no idea what tomorrow holds. No idea. We know that we're not even promised a tomorrow and yet we fall asleep almost expecting to wake up when the sun's out again. Maybe I'm thinking way too much into this, but due to recent happenings in my life I'm way more aware of the decision making process. Day to day living. What will leave a mark on my life, what won't. It's not easy for me right now. There are definitely things that I am having to let go, remember the etch-a-sketch reference? But again, I am thankful for the One who has held my hand through all of this. Reminding myself that He has my best interest at hand. Always.