Open the eyes of my Heart

The 8-second time lapse. Someone's jumping off a boat in Greece. Gone. Someone's eating a big bowl of ice-cream. Gone. Someone's sitting on a beach in Florida. Gone. Someone is reading a book in a hammock. Gone. Someone's having a party with all of your friends. Gone. Someone is in an airport flying to Texas. Gone. Someone's kissing her boyfriend. Gone. Someone just got flowers. Gone. I have found myself growing more and more short-focused.  I can't help but wonder if it has to do with how surrounded I am by a fast-paced social and real world. While reading, I can only make it a couple chapters...while praying, I only communicate for a few short minutes. I think our generation is a slave to speed. The internet is at our hands in no time. Questions about something? No problem. You'll have the answer in seconds...along with 300,000 other possibilities. The children of Gen Z are being exposed to all types of answers to their child-like questions i...

Sometimes I just think up these really attention-getting titles and hope to draw you in to a small piece of my heart and the lessons I have learned in my life.  Statistics:   A little less than 45% of all marriages end in divorce The average cost of a wedding is  $26,720 The average couple divorces after 8 years of marriage  A divorce happens in America every 36 seconds.  Jon proposed to me in August. I was looking forward to all of the bride-ish things. Showers, parties, parties, parties, friends, cake, etc. However, I was just slightly uncomfortable the whole time. Don't get me wrong, I had so much fun being celebrated by close friends and family!  But, shower after shower, I just felt an itch of weird. What was it about this that was just uncomfortable?  The wedding drew nearer, and I began to hear the words "what do you want for this?" "what do you want to do about this?" "You're the bride," "It's what the bri...