The future

To be frank, it scares the hell out of me, mainly because I'm the kind of girl who reads the last page of a book before she starts it. That way I can handle any turmoil the characters face because I know everything will be okay in the end. I sort of wish my life were like that. I wish God would hand me the last page to my story and say see, Whit, everything will turn out okay, don't worry about what happens in the middle.

That being said, here's how I think the story of your life is written. God gives you the beginning and the end and YOU get to decide what happens in the middle. And, you get to decide if you want God's ending...or a different, less happy one.

Because God gives us the future.

He hands it to us as a neatly wrapped gift, and it is ours to open and shape and mold the way we want to. And the cool thing is, even if we get started and decide we don't like what's happening, we can change it. We can fix it. It might be hard...it might be EXTREMELY hard, but it can be done. And those people that choose not to fix it, not to take their future and make it into something they want and something they love and something they know God would be proud of are weak.

You see, we have a perfect story written for us, and God could have let us live that perfect story, but what would that mean for us? We would never face anything difficult, we would never learn how to jump back up after a fall, we would never appreciate the beautiful things God has given us if we didn't have to deal with the ugly ones first. So God gave us direction, he pointed us on our way and gave us our very own pen and paper to write whatever we wanted.
We are our own editors, we can choose how our story plays out, and if we decide we don't like where it's headed, we can change it; we should change it...it's never too late.