THIS IS YOUR LIFE.

Have you ever stopped and looked around. Have you ever just truly saw your life. The life that you get to live everyday. Have you ever?? Today as I was taking the lift up to the summit with the crisp air stinging my face and starring down at the Flathead Valley below, as I was making fresh tracks in the soft cotton like snow with a view that will bring you to tears... it hit me. This is my life. And what I have found it doesn't need to be in some paradise setting... you don't need to travel places to feel it. You just have to open you eyes to the beauty that surrounds you... in your everday life.... Let me tell you a secret... THIS IS YOUR LIFE. THESE ARE YOUR MEMORIES. AND its the PEOPLE that surround you near or far (together or apart) that make it - that make your life beautiful. Its the constants... the ones that are always there. the ones that never leave. the ones that walk with you in the darkness and laugh with you in the sun. the ones who never turn their backs, the ones who know just being you is enough. the ones who see you when you are at times less than that person. the ones who bring out the best in you. the ones who love you and support you. the ones who believe in you. the ones who understand instead of judge. the ones who are there for no reason other than just being there. the ones who carry your story. carry your memories. carry your laughter and smiles. carry your tears and pain.

So you find yourself in aww. That somehow THIS IS YOUR LIFE. THIS IS the LIFE YOU get to LIVE. What a blessing that is, for all of us... no matter what life brings us, takes from us, puts us thru or blesses us... THIS IS YOUR LIFE. I ask you then, when was the last time you thanked your Constants? The friends and family that stand by us through out the years. For you know when you look back on your life and think of the bright spots of the past and even the dark ones... its those Constants that bring meaning to your journey. its those Constants that bring meaning to your life. We wouldn't be here without those people, and if by chance we are... I am betting our life wouldn't have such a depth of a meaning. For who carries our story. our memories. our tears and laughter. our happiness and pain. our love. THIS IS YOUR LIFE.