Have you ever been at a place in life where you've felt so fortunate and blessed to the point where good stuff is piled on top of other good stuff, higher and higher?  I've found myself in a similar place recently and I have been doing some reflection about that.

Some of the things I'm enjoying in life right now are somewhat an indirect result of some good decisions I've made and some hard work on my part; but when I really stop and consider and reflect upon the origin of how I was able to achieve these things, my thoughts continue to turn to a mysterious divine being.

I'm not one who subscribes to the prosperity gospel's idea that if you do X (have enough faith, give money, follow all of the rules) then you will get Y.  Please don't get me wrong...I believe there are general truths and principals at work in this world that, in general if followed, result in pre-determined outcomes.  But life experience tells me that this is not always the case.  In addition, it is just plain cruel to tell a person suffering from a terrible disease that if they only had enough faith, then they would be healed.  Sometimes bad things happen and there is no valid explanation.

I'm all for enjoying the good things that come along in life, but when the good things are really good, things that greatly exceed your expectations...in fact things that are better than anything you've hoped and dreamed for...what then?  How come these things don't truly satisfy?  Why is there a hole in my soul that doesn't ever seem to be fully satisfied by attaining great stuff in life?

So my thoughts turn to the divine.  A God who is good...who I reach out to in faith...believing that this supreme being has the answer to my questions...that this person has what it takes to fill the hole, to provide true, real meaning in a world that tries to tell me that nothing is real, that nothing is absolute and that truth does not exist.  A God who provides ultimate comfort and security.

My heart is filled with gratitude as I look to the one who is good, full of love and longs to provide good things to His people.  I can only hope to take good care of the things I have received knowing that when I die I cannot take these things with me but they are important enough now to be entrusted to me.  I am grateful.