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Got What You Sought?

Got What You Sought?
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We’ve been challenged, in the last two years, to live life differently. So many events and activities have been set aside, canceled, or reorganized. Concentrating on our immediate past can conjure up disappointment.  And yet over time, you have surely scored, achieved, found love, and known joy. As we enter 2022, let’s consider dreams that have come true.

Got What You Sought?

Have you got what you sought? It’s a matter of deciding whether your dreams have come true.

Sometimes, we wish for something for so long that when we get it, we forget to appreciate it and celebrate it. And of course, our dreams change over time. So – Have you got what you sought?

What’s really, really important to a teenager can become embarrassingly minor when you grow up.

Sometimes it takes adversity for us to appreciate what we have. I remember the first house we bought back in the 1970s. After a year or so, I was wishing for a larger place with more amenities. I got really perturbed at the little house we were living in.

Then bad times came along and it became questionable whether we could afford our monthly mortgage.  Suddenly, our little house was a mansion – perfect in every way. Just please God let us be able to keep this roof over our heads.

A good way to put it into perspective is to realize that what you have, someone else is praying for. It could be that roof covering your head, or the clean water that comes out of the faucet when you turn it on, or the fact that no armed enemy will come crashing through your door while you are sleeping tonight.

We have so much and are so blessed.  Never stop giving thanks and being grateful. 

P.S.   As I thought about my own dreams that have come true, it occurred to me how long it has been since my prayers had asked for anything. I remembered youthful, frantic prayer requests. Over time, they stopped.  When had that changed? Perhaps when life proved that unanswered prayers can have the biggest blessing of all. 

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Filed Under: Advice and Encouragement, Laughter, Joy, and Gratitude, Love and Kindness Tagged With: faith, Inspiration, life lessons, prayers

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  1. Karyn Romani says

    January 2, 2022 at

    Annette – You are such a Blessing to so many. You uplift me with your heartfelt messages that usually challenge me to be better in some small way. Thank you for sharing your insights with the World. You make life a little brighter. I am grateful.

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    • Annette Petrick says

      January 4, 2022 at

      It is such a privilege to have a platform for expression. Thanks for responding so often with such love.

      Reply
  2. Dan Dobson says

    January 2, 2022 at

    I have lived a blessed life aka as virtually every dream has come true and I attribute it in large measure to the prayers of my grandmother, Mary Elizabeth Stewart Dobson, which started from her in Federalsburg, MD while I was in my mother’s womb in San Francisco and continued until her death in 1961. Proven by her daily diary..
    Looking for an online worship because you are unable to attend church physically. Join us:
    https://graceseaford.online.church/

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    • Annette Petrick says

      January 4, 2022 at

      People so often say, “You’ve been in my heart every day.” Your gma was able to prove it. Rare and precious. Your link is now on my 2022 To do list.

      Reply

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