La Vita è Bella

Life is beautiful.


That's my motto, my mantra, the phrase I live by.
Every so often, I like to take some time to see my life, the beautiful mess that it is, as a whole. It's a great way to really see God's amazing work in action. Sometimes it's easy to get wrapped up in the drama of living in the 21st century, and you'll easily find yourself discontent with the way your life is.
Lately, I'm finding that my life is kinda like a heart-wrenching movie from the outside. By heart-wrenching, I do NOT mean romantic and gushy. Being a teenage girl, I've always wished my life would be like a romantic movie, with the man of my dreams sweeping me off my feet and showing his love for me in the sweetest ways and getting married in Italy and having a bunch of kids that looked just like him, and us living happily ever after. (I KNOW I'll have a happy ending someday, because I trust God's plans for me) But it seems lately that I'm stuck in one of those movies where your heart just hurts to watch because, though good and happy things happen to the main character, and the main character herself is a happy person, there's something vitally lacking, some missing piece that is needed for the puzzle to be complete. It's as though I'm stuck in a movie where all the parts that are needed to make it a happy ending haven't come together yet. But that's life in a nutshell, right?


And life is beautiful when you CHOOSE to be happy though all the pieces haven't come together yet. 

What a beautiful mess my life is. How blessed I am in more ways than I can count. Besides the fact that I am currently relaxing in a queen-sized bed in an air-conditioned hotel room at Myrtle Beach, after a peaceful day on the beach, with a full stomach, fresh, purified water to drink, a place to call home, a cell phone to keep in touch with friends and family, etc. (the list could go on...), I am blessed simply because I have a God Who loves me. Sure, I could count everything that has gone wrong in my life, and that list could go on as well, but by taking a step back and seeing my life as a whole, it's so apparent that everything that has happened in my life has happened for a reason. God has used everything that has happened to me (bad or good), directly or indirectly, turned it into grace, and opportunity, and I am where I am right now because of that. THAT is beautiful. And He does that to everyone, whether they realize that or not. Life is so beautiful! God is so beautiful! I just love to see Him work.


Perspective is everything. I, like everyone, at times get caught up in everything that goes wrong in life, and I catch myself sometimes wishing things were different, or easier. But my life, the heart-wrenching drama that it is, is beautiful, and I wouldn't change it, or the people in it, for the world.


Don't ever forget that life is beautiful <3