Help Someone or Get Yourself Help

Tonight I had the privilege and honor of representing Celebrate Recovery at IUP during a talk on sobriety from alcohol. Our speaker has traveled the country speaking with college students and professional sports teams about how one time can cause so many problems in your life. Please be cautious if you choose to drink. Please be cautious if you drink on the social level. And please if you see someone who needs help take their keys, redirect them if they are going to get themselves into trouble, It takes one choice and one drink to mess up and that one choice could have horrible impacts on your life or someone else's life. If you or someone needs help take that choice to get help. Go to a Celebrate Recovery (which is for anything and everything, not just drugs and alcohol) get to a counselor, get to a church, go to meetings, whatever it takes just get the help you need. Your life is precious and it does matter, don't let one horrible choice be what determines your future.

What are You Taking For Granted??

Often we take stuff for granted. We take our lives for granted, our education, cars, friends, the little things such as nice weather, our phones, and so much more. We take it all for granted with out even thinking how everything could change. In a blink of an eye EVERYTHING can change. 

When we take things for granted we forget to appreciate what we have. We forget to appreciate our lives. We just go through life thinking that we will have a car that we will have a tomorrow, a next week or next time. We will have more nice weather or a phone. Unfortunately this is not the case. There is ALWAYS a chance that things will change. We are given so many opportunities and yet we do not always take it to heart to realize how much it often means. 

We need to start realizing that life is not guaranteed, our cars, phones, education. Nice days and our friends and family are not guaranteed. Because of the simple fact that nothing is guaranteed we have to start living in the moment and stop taking EVERYTHING for granted. It is hard to live in the moment and to not take things for granted but once you live in the moment and do not take things for granted it helps make life more worth it. It allows for life to be truly amazing and it allows for a new appreciation.