Down but never out. . . . .

Life has a funny way of smacking you in the face with a 2x4 doesn't it? As I sit here and bleed from a cut on my lip, I am reminded of how oblivious I am to my own wellbeing. Life it would seem is not done upsetting my already pureed sense of morality and discipline. I'm not referring to anything major, (well unless you count losing your wife, house, and family all in one year, then nothing major at all) You see I am content with what I have and I want to prove that by not adhering to the belief that I need to be rich, or comfortable for that matter. I believe it is wrong to want to be either now. . .I know what your thinking but I just want to be able to pay my bills and help everyone. Well so what? So does everyone else and its about time we took a step back and looked at what is so dang important, that we skipped calling our loved ones, friends, and relatives for. What is it that makes the human spirit so susceptible to money. Is it the money itself? Well the answer to this is no. It's what the money can do, buy, and help you acquire. Whether it be power, friends, junk toys, email/ internet, big fancy TV's, or a toaster that talks to you in the morning, the fact remains that if your rich you were given that status for a reason. You have more than most and by God why not give and help those less fortunate?? And for those who are poor or poverty stricken use your brains, you still have one and God didn't give it to you just to sit on. There are plenty of things you can do that don't cost money, give of yourself, of your time (rake the neighbor's yard), of your wisdom/ knowledge, anything is better than nothing. Life is worth living, even when your in danger of losing all the things that could possibly mean the world to you. Look up the sky is still there and there are still people in need of food and shelter. Now the next part is the hardest, we stop doing all those things that make us comfortable and move into the "faith" area of our lives. This is the part where we have no idea what is going to happen yet we continue to push on with our mission or calling. Now if you don't have faith I pity you. I really do. Take a moment to think about something though if you think your agnostic or atheistic, or whatever -ic, when you hit your brakes in a car there are two responses that can come from it, one the car stops, or two the car doesn't. Now apply this scientifically the brakes work through the brake line which keeps pressure on the pads causing the brakes to grab the tires slowly, ok still with me? No one drives there car thinking about this though, there thought is simple they have in a word "faith" that there car is going to stop when they hit the brakes. Simple and straight forward. Even those who say they don't have "faith" actually do, they just don't realize it yet. The realization is this the life you want is not what you necessarily need. So the answer is what? Let it go? Walk away? Hate to tell you this but I don't know the answer, all I do know is when I got married I meant it and I will do everything in my power to make my wife happy, even if it takes me to the very last breath in my lungs. I will! That's my convictoin. If you have a conviction too, then by all means apply what I said to your life, or make your excuses that I'm grasping at straws. Whatever you choose make up your mind and make it quick, because life isn't waiting for us, not anymore.