Life Lesson VIA Candy Crush

Today I have been thinking...... scary I know. Candy Crush has taught me a life lesson yall! Yes I mean the game Candy Crush. Before you judge here me out.
The other day I was playing this highly additive game in the waiting room at the doctors office. I was on a level that I had been trying to beat for a good week. I was trying to get two stripe candies together. I had one blue strip at the very bottom of the screen so all I needed to do was create another strip and bring it down ... easy enough right...WRONG!! While most of my moves were spent trying to get one strip down to the other strip I took a breath and looked at the other parts of the screen and realized there was two spots I could make striped candies  and they would actually fall side by side. The only problem was I only had 2 moves left.
        Now I know your wondering how this applies to life. Ill tell ya! Sometimes in life we have such a focus either on what we want or our a problem that, we have that we miss blessings set in our path. I can even imagine how many of Gods blessings I have missed because I was so focused on what I wanted or because I felt inferior or I was depressed because I let the Alopecia consume my thinking.
      I know we cant exactly shut our brain off. As a mom I really wish God would have equipped us with one! But we CAN force ourselves to focus on the positives and the smaller blessing in our lives. Be still in our situation and know God has our back no matter what. And just maybe we can see the big picture in Gods plan. We can see that we are so focused on balancing on the curb of the path that God has for us we didnt even notice that there was a whole sidewallk there to easily walk on. We dont even have to struggle to balance anymore!
      I have struggled a lot with the feeling of being inferior and depression for years even before I discovered I had Alopecia. God did not make me to feel this way.  2Timothy 1:7 says For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.  If I can push the devil out just a little bit harder and pull God in closer maybe the feelings of the world and seeds of the devil wont be as prosperous.

Have a great week.