New Experiences

New Experiences

I have just finished up an assignment at a wonderful facility in Orlando Florida. For those of you who do not know, I am a travel Registered Nurse. I travel the Country working in different Emergency Departments.

Life is one experience after another. I have yet to encounter an experience in which I am not thankful for. Now, not every experience is a wonderful one. Some of the experiences have been not-so-wonderful. Some, have been downright heart wrenching. Of course, I have had some wonderful experiences as well. However, most often, we don't usually look at life this way. We move through these experiences not really knowing they are experiences in which we are to learn something new, meet someone new, or just to help someone else learn from an experience of their own. We usually go through each day without observing. We complain about the not-so-pleasant experiences and brag about the wonderful ones. Then, we usually have more not-so-great experiences to complain about. We usually only want to thank God for the "good" things in our lives even though the not-so-good things usually help shape who we are. We learn from "all" the experiences in our lives. Not just the good ones. If the not-so-great experiences help shape who we are, or help direct in a different much better direction, then why would we not be thankful for them? Even more than the great experiences in our lives.

We usually don't go through life with an awareness of this. Each day, we encounter new ideas, new people, new prospects, new love, and even new life yet we are not aware of what each and every experience we encounter means to us.

Life has meaning and every experience we encounter does as well. Life expresses itself through these experiences we encounter yet we become complacent with life and all the experiences we that go with it. Life is meant to be good. There is no doubt in my mind of this. However, it doesn't mean that we won't have not-so-pleasant experiences. It means our life is good. Period! Even the good and not-so-good things we may encounter. Life is good!

There is meaning to life itself and everything that goes along with life. Most often, life presents itself through difficult experiences. If you have an awareness to this, if you are understanding of this, then you are far more advanced than most people. You understand all of life's experiences have meaning to them. If not, I would suggest you wake up each morning and ask God to help you become more aware of each experience you encounter for that day. Then, at the end of the day, look back at each experience and write down why it is you think you may have experienced what you had. If you encounter a not-so-great situation, write it down and become aware of why it is you have experienced this. Maybe you have come down with an illness and question why life presented you with this experience. Attempt to become aware of these experiences. Maybe you have been allowing people to drain you of much needed energy by always relying on you to help them out of bad situations. If we allow others to constantly drain us of energy, we leave ourselves vulnerable to illness and crisis. Write down all of your experiences and seek to become aware of each one. This will help you to learn to be thankful for them and to understand the meaning to life itself.

Be thankful for each experience you encounter. Learn from both, the good things, and the not-so-good things and then move on.

I hope this finds each of you well.

God bless!