Back on the shelf

                                      
Have you ever gone shopping, find an article of clothing you absolutely fall in love with and then put it back on because you didn't have shoes that went with it or maybe an occassion to wear it to? A couple weeks later you find yourself regretting the decision because you have nothing to wear and you say “I wish I would have bought it".

Many times we are like this with the ones we find to be in a relationship with. We have a list of a thousand qualities that we wish to find, and when God brings someone who has everything we ask for we decide that maybe they need to be "put on the shelf" due to "a lose button, a string thats out of place", or because its not something we are "used to wearing". We get so caught up in the what-ifs that we don't realize how God has answered our prayers. We have been blinded by society's fantasy scenarios in where the girl/boy of our dreams walks in the room, eyes lock, hearts connect, and its love at first sight. Some of the best relationships went through the worst of the worst before being who they are now. Some had the privilege of being best friends. Others had the difficulty of being enemies. Whatever the case is, all successful relationships have one thing in common: they made a decision to love without regrets.

Stop to think if God has answered your prayers...maybe its not in the form you thought it would be, but its still an answered prayer. Don't look for things that God has brought to you already. It's like winning the lottery and never turning in the ticket and you keep on buying tickets...stupid right?

Why do people search for things that they already had/have...