"My mama always said, life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." — Forrest Gump
Sometimes I will see on the CBS Morning Show one of those spots called “Note to Self” where a reader will read out loud a letter they write to their younger self. The quote above made me think about what I would write to myself as I look back at my own life. I’m not going to post what that letter might look like, but I will say, my life today looks nothing like I imagined when I was young.
If you had asked me what my future would be, I would have told you that I would become one of the following…an astronaut, pro bowler, pro football player, or maybe a rock star. Also, as I’ve mentioned before, I would have married a German Lutheran girl (This is what my Dad always told me to marry). I ended up marrying a girl from Mexico and became a pharma salesman that later turned into a business owner. I also moved from an Ohio suburb to the small Texas town of Tyler, Texas before ending up in Austin to raise my family.
I suspect if we all wrote that note to self, we’d see a life very different from what we had imagined in our youth. That box of chocolates might include some not so sweet ones, tastes of heartache, and disappointments along the way. Hopefully in that box, some really sweet times of success and overcoming great challenges. Bitter chocolates help us to appreciate the sweet ones that much more.
We don’t know exactly what’s left in our box of chocolates, but we can take comfort that our Creator knows what chocolates await us in this lifetime and beyond.
Jeremiah 29:11
TSK
Sometimes I will see on the CBS Morning Show one of those spots called “Note to Self” where a reader will read out loud a letter they write to their younger self. The quote above made me think about what I would write to myself as I look back at my own life. I’m not going to post what that letter might look like, but I will say, my life today looks nothing like I imagined when I was young.
If you had asked me what my future would be, I would have told you that I would become one of the following…an astronaut, pro bowler, pro football player, or maybe a rock star. Also, as I’ve mentioned before, I would have married a German Lutheran girl (This is what my Dad always told me to marry). I ended up marrying a girl from Mexico and became a pharma salesman that later turned into a business owner. I also moved from an Ohio suburb to the small Texas town of Tyler, Texas before ending up in Austin to raise my family.
I suspect if we all wrote that note to self, we’d see a life very different from what we had imagined in our youth. That box of chocolates might include some not so sweet ones, tastes of heartache, and disappointments along the way. Hopefully in that box, some really sweet times of success and overcoming great challenges. Bitter chocolates help us to appreciate the sweet ones that much more.
We don’t know exactly what’s left in our box of chocolates, but we can take comfort that our Creator knows what chocolates await us in this lifetime and beyond.
Jeremiah 29:11
TSK
