Chasing the Wind

You win some, you lose some. You crash and burn. You trip and fall. The question is who is there to offer you a hand to get back up. Who gets down and helps you pick up the pieces and move on? The truth is that at the end of the day, when you tried your damnedest and you still came up short... welcome to life. The best we ever have is nothing but a series of tries, a lot of grit and determination, some tears and laughs along the way. You can sit down and plan it all out and micro-manage it to the nth degree. And you can still wind up with it all in 249 pieces in your lap, holding onto a broken shard and asking what the hell happened? There's nothing more calming than letting it all fly into the wind... realizing you don't have your stuff together and you never will entirely, and just living in the moment you are given now. Not to be reckless and wasteful, but to embrace each beautiful second with the knowledge that this, here and now, is all you really have right now. The knowledge that a bigger Power than you or me has it all in hand, and He knows exactly how the pieces fit together. Those days when nothing in life makes any sense at all, when you're pretty sure that your life was supposed to go differently than this... He's smiling at what you don't know, what you can't see yet.