Happiness is a Warm Girl

I feel amazing today. And I hope you do too!

I went last night and stayed at the Beau Rivage Resort, Hotel, Casino and home of very expensive restaurants in Biloxi, MS. My girl has a conference down there all week and she put me in her suitcase for a while!

It was wonderfully wonderful time because I was with the most amazing woman I have ever known.

And oh do I love her.

As I left this morning driving the 100 miles to work I pondered my life and all the blessings I have.

And I think I’ve finally come to terms with the grandfather issue and am now just ready for a baby.

Hoping my daughter will just give me the baby.

I doubt it, but one can hope!

But otherwise, I was thinking about how for so much of my life I have been running – either towards something or away from something and I realized that I’m not running anywhere anymore.

I’m right in the sweet spot of life and am actually just enjoying the hell out of it!

I’m in love with a girl that is worth more than all the money in the world and the most amazing thing is that - she loves me back!

That’s one that us boys don’t get to say too often. It’s usually us loving girls way beyond our reach – but this time, oh this time – she loves me back!!!

And that makes for one fulfilling life……….

Hope is something that we all treat with a bit of suspicion. I think our nature tells us that when things are so good that something awful is bound to happen.

I don’t think like that.

I truly appreciate what I have and will do whatever is necessary to keep it going. Nothing is easy in life and there is effort involved in all things – good and bad!

No one has the power to foretell the future. And isn’t that a good thing? Take away the amazing element of surprise and mystery and our lives would be very long and very boring!

But honestly, the inability to predict even the next moment is only a problem when we insist on imagining the worst.

Do you know people that do that? Always thinking the worst is going to happen and then being surprised when it rarely does.

Many people get their emotional exercise jumping to negative conclusions. They conjure evil coming from everywhere to do them harm or ruin their life. In doing that, I believe people withdraw themselves for the possibility that an opportunity for joy is right around the corner the next time the phone rings.

Those people tend to reject positive advances from friends and loved ones because they start to see ulterior motives in everything.

But enough of that stuff. All I’ll say is that the future is the place where we’re going to spend the REST OF OUR LIVES! And it is truly our choice whether we look forward with confidence and courage or if we choose to walk blindfolded toward some impending doom.

And the older I get, the more I realize that tomorrows have a very strange way of becoming todays…………it is certainly to my advantage to try to live more in the present and enjoy each moment of my life.

I guess the most amazing thing about all of this is that for the first time in my life, the place I want to be is the actual place I am.

Which makes me the luckiest boy in the world.

I’ll pray that for you as well.

Peace.