It's Not What I Wanted.

How many times in life do we think "well, it's not what I wanted".  And at that very instant we decide we will never be happy with it.  Of course the "it" could be anything...a job, a relationship, a hair cut, a situation, you name it.

It's not like I dreamed, it's not like I asked, hoped, wished for.  Surely all the foster dogs felt that way when they ended up here.  Not that they didn't end up in a good place, it's just probably not what they may have envisioned.  Hank didn't want to be picked up as a stray, Mick didn't want to be the last of a litter who couldn't be placed in a home, Layla surely didn't want to have a chain collar so tight it had to b cut off.   We all want warm, sunny, permanent, easy, happy, rich, funny, joyful lives. Sometimes what we want and what we get aren't the same.  Sometimes we get way more than we ever dreamed, it just comes in a different package than we expected.  If we find a way to let go of the expectation we can find some unexpected beauty.

In the meantime we grow and change.  It may not be what we wanted, but embracing where we are lets in the grace.  Who couldn't use a little more grace in their lives.