Morelli & Kate: Why I think bad things happen to good people....

I have let this blog fall by the wayside, and yes I even forgot I had one for, oh four months. Life has a way of doing that. Life gets in the way of good intention by throwing you cruve balls. They come at you so fast you can't jump out of the way in time and you end up falling in pain, lying broken and beaten at home. 2010 had it's ups and downs for me. Some ups higher then years before and a few downs lower then I thought God would ever allow.

One thing is true about the ups and downs of life, had I not been where I was in my faith and relationship with God when 2010 arrived I honestly don't think I would've come out kickin in 2011. I've come to realize that yes bad things happen to good people, and yes that sucks!!! But my personal belief is it's not God's intention or design for these bad things to happen to us, his beloveds.

Here is my personal belief, and feel free to completely disagree. My personal belief is that the Satan/Lucier/Devil (you pick the name) is jealous of God's unconditional forgiving love for us, and so he tempts us, throws us down into pits, and challenges us to place all the blame God for how we got there. "Why me? Why did you let this happen to me God? Why would God do that, or allow it?"

How often are these the first phrases we reach for when we're laying broken and beaten at home? But I think that's just what Satan wants from us. He wants to hinder us and others from growing in a close, strong, and personal relationship with our forgiving and love Father. But why?

Again, these are all just my PERSONAL beliefs......So, why do I think Satan wants to harm our relationship and pull us away from God. I believe that it is because we are saved, we are forgiven, and we are loved. We can lie, cheat, steal, murder and no matter what we are forgiven. Lucifer didn't get a secon chance or in our case chances. He fell from God's grace, that's why he's called the fallen angel. He fell and God didn't send his only son to redeem him. No God instead created us, in his image, a perfect reflection of him. We spent paradise with him until sin entered the world through Satan's attempt to show God that we would and could do no better then him but to fall short of God's glory. And so we fell, but God loved us so much that ... well John 3:16.... that he sent his only son... and hopefully you know the rest.

So see my personal belief is that it's not God we should blame when life throws us curve balls, but it is Satan who tempts us, throws us down into pits, and wills us to fall away from our loving Father. I started to see things this way long before the 2010 threw it's worst at me, and I have to say that I'm pretty sure it's this belief in God's uncondtional love that has kept me sane and led me to my current path.

I do have to say that despite it all, I am still a hopeless optimist. I feel like 2011 will bring amazing, wonderful, and brilliant changes to my life. In fact I can say without a shadow of a doubt I know that last statement is 100% true. I've already started the wheel of change rolling and I can't wait to see where it's taking me and my pup.

One thing is for sure God has blessed me with amazing friends, family, and an amazing dog to go on these next great adventures with! So I thank God for all he's done and all I know he'll continue to do.

Okay time for a montage of the year 2010 (only the best moments were captured on film forever... there's a reason for that... so you forget the bad and only remember the good) ... here's just a snap shoot of the good moments!! :)