The Lucky One

In 2008, Nicholas Sparks released the book The Lucky One.  I being a huge Nicholas Sparks fan bought the book.  Thankfully, I did not get far into the book before putting it down, never to finish the story.  There was a reason.  This past weekend, I journeyed to the theater with excitement to see the book I never finished turned movie.  I am a sucker for a good chick flick and Spark’s never disappoints.  This time though, I found a movie very difficult to watch.  It was extremely familiar. Throughout the movie, I bit my lip fighting back tears and spent much of the movie sick on my stomach.  In the end, there was a happy ending as love prevailed but it just did not settle well for me.  

Life is a journey.  We all face battles.  We have great hills to climb. What I am learning though is that through those battles, there come unexpected blessings.  It is crazy to see how the worst of things can happen in our lives and yet God will take those things and mold them into something incredibly beautiful.  I am a testimony to His great artistic abilities and His amazing divine power.  I have been given much.  In so many areas of my life, I would consider myself beyond blessed.  Some would call it luck. I truly do feel like the lucky one however, to me, luck is nothing but instead the great blessing of Living Under Christ’s Kindness.  He has given me all that I have and I recognize that these blessings in disguise are the work of a mighty God whose grace is more than I can understand and greater than I even deserve.