Last week my 5-year-old daughter wanted to play a game. She went into the garage, where we keep all our games, and said, “Let’s play LIFE”. I responded, “Let’s play another game. LIFE isn’t a game for little kids. It’s too hard”. She said, “I can play it. I can play it. I really want to play LIFE”.
So, I opened the box and we played the game of LIFE
She decided to go straight to college. After she graduated from college, she became a doctor. She then got married, bought a house, and had four kids (a girl and three boys). At the end of the game, one of her kids had a baby and she became a grandmother. During the game, she broke her leg in a skiing accident, had to pay $200,000 for her four kids to go to college, received $50,000 for winning the Nobel Peace Prize, and paid $5,000 to get her car fixed because she didn’t have insurance. At the end of the game she said, “Why did all of things happen to me”?
I said, “These are all the things that happen in real LIFE”
And we played again and again and again
Later that day I was thinking about how different real LIFE is from the game. In real life… you don’t pick a career and salary from a pile of cards. You don’t automatically get married when you reach a certain space on the game board. All your kids don’t fit nice and neat in the car. Payday isn’t every other spin and it’s not easy to get a loan from the bank.
The truth is… LIFE is hard. LIFE is challenging. LIFE is messy
And LIFE is not a game
But there is one similarity between the game and the Christian LIFE: the chance to start again. Every day I wake up and can start over. God’s mercies are new every morning and his compassion never fails. Even though I experience storms in LIFE, they don’t consume me. God is so faithful!
The truth is… I don’t know where I’d be if I didn’t have the opportunity to start over
“Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness” (Lamentations 3:22-23 NIV)
Dear Lord,
Thank you for your faithfulness. Thank you for the gift of life. Thank you for your grace and mercy. And thank you for the opportunity to always play again
Amen…If it had not been for the Lord on my side I never would have made!!! Have a blessed week cousin😘
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