Highway Houses.

This morning I woke up to my dad making me breakfast, pancakes and bacon with a cup of chai tea... Mhmm it was so good. We then drove to my school where a short bus with ten seats awaited. My volleyball team of 9 girls walk on the bus, each getting our own seat. We embark on our first senior girls volleyball ofsaa EVER! Everyone has been so excited, I don't think it hit me until right now. I find myself sitting on the bus and just realizing how amazing each person is and how we all compliment each others personality. Two of my closest friends are sitting across from each other playing Guess that Tune, its hilarious... all three of us are killing ourselves laughing. I began to realize how blessed i am to have people like this in my life, I think over the past couple weeks I was hurt and just wanted to move on but wasn't able to because I wasn't actually looking at the good stuff. I find as a society we tend to look down when things go wrong, getting caught up in questions like; "why did this happen", "what did I do to let this happen". We begin to focus too much on our faults, and we begin to blame ourselves for these situations happening, but i'm beginning to realize this has nothing to do with our faults and failures but has everything to do with the natural order of things. Now when I say natural order of things I don't mean society or media, I mean God, the universe, where we fit in, and where we are called. God often uses situations and experiences as periods of growth and strengthening, He teaches us, He puts on the straight and narrow. I recently read a quote that said

"we lose hope when we look down at our circumstances. Instead, look up to the one who can change everything"

Now I don't think you have to be spiritual for this quote to be relative, I still believe that if we are constantly looking down at our circumstances or situations we are constantly are looking at what we did wrong or who we lost and expectations we didn't meet. If we look up, we have everything to look forward to, we see opportunities, a life full of adventures and new people, new experiences and most of all our future. If we look up we don't waste any present time being stuck on that road block. 

.. now how does this all relate to the 6 hour bus ride, well we've been driving on the same Highway for a long time now, we went through multiple areas of construction, many road blocks, uneven ground, but eventually we will arrive. Im sure of that. Thinking of this highway is a good analogy of our lives.