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A Happy Bear



Had I been given a million chances I’d have never guessed my life would end up how it is. I write this from the second floor of our home listening to my son sleep through the baby monitor as my wife gets ready for bed. It’s a nice house, too, something that just two years ago we couldn’t have hoped to own. Adding to that it’s our second home, in just a couple years. Two nice cars sit in our garage. One of them is even a Lexus. 

And yet this is not the life I wished for all those years ago.

So if all my wildest dreams didn’t come true why do I feel so blessed?

Because enough of my dreams came true to make me realize I wasn’t really in need of fulfillment in all the ways I could imagine. I was in desperate need to be fulfilled in all the ways I COULDN’T imagine.

There was once a ship looking for shore when the saw in the distance an island. The crew then noticed a boat leaving that island. Coming alongside the crew gave salutations to which the other crew exclaimed “TURN AROUND TURN AROUND!”. “Why?” asked the captain of the ship. “Because this island makes all your dreams a reality!” Shocked the captain exclaimed “Well if that’s true why on earth would we turn around? Why are you leaving such a place?!”.

To which the captain of the boat replied “You don’t understand… it makes ALL your dreams come true!”
Here’s the point in case you missed it. You and I have all had some pretty terrible ideas and even worse dreams. What measure of kindness would it be for a God to give a man just enough of his terrible idea and the sight to see its going bad then to direct that man’s path down a road he couldn’t have even begun to imagine before? It would be tremendous right?

Well I’m that man. I am that clumsy oaf who’s had some pretty bad ideas and terrible dreams that the good Lord of all creation saw fit to rescue from myself and the penalty due my transgressions. Not only has he saved my very soul but He’s given me a wonderful wife, a joy of a son, and a life I wake up to every day thanking Him for.

So what’s better than a million dollars?

This :)


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