Happily ever after....

What is "happily ever after"? It is the ending to a fairy tale.

In life, there is no "happily ever after" because life is not a fairy tale! It is reality. Full of joys and heartaches, good times and bad, easy and hard, love and...well, you get the idea. I am learning that pursuing happily ever after is foolhardy because it's not real!

So what are we to do? Are we destined to live lives of mediocrity? Loneliness? Sadness? NO! We are to pursue God and let HIM supply the peripherals!

Sometimes that means our path will be in the valley. And the climb to mountain top may be forested and dark and rocky and steep. Or it may be soft grasses and gentle slopes and streams and cool shade. Or it may be hot sun or cold blizzard. That is up to God.

This I know. The climb doesn't matter. What matters is reaching the pinnacle - Heaven! We only do that by walking the path God lays for us.

Walking with Him. It is all I want.