What if?

I've been think about life lately.
Right now, I am still in school.
Where will I be next month?
Where will I be next year?
In the next five years?

Then I came upon a scary thought: in the next five years, I will be twenty!
I could still be in my small town village, I could be in college, I could even be a wife and/or a mom! I could be half-way over with my life even!

After that thought, I started thinking about others things like: where will my family and friends be in five years?
Right now, my littlest brother Jesse is 11 years old (I think lol). In five years he will be sixteen and my big brother will be twenty-one, almost twenty-two. What if, in the next five years, I don't have a little brother Jesse or a big brother, Silas? What if I do? What if Si becomes someone awesome.. like the president! =) What if he is a hobo and cannot afford to buy his family shoes? What is Maryrose robs a bank and becomes on the top ten list of most wanted people?! (ok, now I'm getting kinda crazy!! lol)

What about my friends, though?.. my closest friends who I love very dearly and feel like I could never live without? Will I ever see them after we all go our separate ways in life? Maybe. Will we ever talk? Possibly. Will we ever go back to our little Subway booth on Wednesday nights or have random parties/bonfires, just because? Doubt it. Seriously, doubt it.

Life is full of "what if's" and "what about's".
Some are really cool amazing thoughts like: what if my brothers and sister all have an amazing life ahead of them? What if we have no more days of trouble to come and we "perfect" lives?
And some are not so good thoughts like: what is Levi gets in a car accident and has horrible brain damage, can no longer do anything for himself or think for himself.

You know what?
I have something awesome to share with you.


Matthew 6:25-34:

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?  Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin.  Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."

If that isn't one of the coolest things you have ever read, I don't know what is!!

#1. Don't worry!
#2. God is totally in control, just look around you! You know those birds that you see everywhere? Go created them and takes cares for each and every one of them and plans out every detail of their life. To God, you are worth so much more than a silly 'ol bird!! God cares for you in more ways then you will ever know!
#3. Worrying doesn't add a single second, minute, hour, day, month or year to you life!
#4. Don't worry about your clothes.. that's just silly! Have you not see how your savior takes care of those pesky dandelions or those beautiful flowers your mom grows all around the house!! Think about how much more you are worth to Christ!!
#5, Don't worry!
#6. Don't worry!
#7. Don't worry!

Isn't it so cool to know that God cares so much for you that he makes sure you know that he will never forget about any detail of your life.. Even the tiniest thing like, how you are going style your hair tomorrow! God is in control of you life, so don't worry! It's in good hands! 

Plus, I have one more cool thing to share with you.
Ok, so.. You know how I was talking about "what if we have an amazing life ahead of us? What if we have no more days of trouble to come and we "perfect" lives?"

Well, guess what?

Ahead of us, we do have an amazing and totally perfect life. If you have trusted Christ as your savior, repented and are living your life for HIS glory.. You have an indescribable life ahead that involves praising and glorifying Christ forever and ever in heaven! How great is that?!

So, ya know? Even though I get frustrated and scared that I don't know what life holds ahead for me, I can be content in knowing that God does!