I have a lot of favorite movies. Perhaps one of my most memorable “childhood” movies is The Lion King (although I wasn’t a child when it premiered, I had a child who absolutely had to watch it every single day for a year!!! It grew on me!!). In the opening scenes of the movie, while baby Simba is being presented to the kingdom as the next air to Mufasa’s throne, the king’s major “DoDo” Zazu goes searching for Scar, Mufasa’s brother, to reprimand him for not being at the ceremony. When the camera first shows Scar, he is playfully teasing a mouse that is obviously about to become his next meal, saying: “Life isn’t fair, is it? See I, well I will never be king. And you will never see the light of another day….”

Those words of a movie made over 16 years ago for children are so meaningful in today’s society. “LIFE ISN’T FAIR, IS IT?”

It’s not fair that in today’s economy a college graduate with 3 degrees can’t find work because of years of government abuse and cover-ups that lead to the most powerful nation in the world becoming practically bankrupt – unemployment, foreclosures, and welfare claims are on the rise, while frustrated people with no hope in site are taking their lives and the lives of their families under duress.  All the while it seems the rich get richer – the government gives billions of bail-out dollars to the automotive industry, which continues to close down plants and have more lay-offs, and insurance companies give million-dollar bonuses for screwing up the company’s financial status and  -  once again – creating more lay-off situations. LIFE ISN’T FAIR, IS IT?

It’s time that we realize the truth about life. Nothing…and I do mean NOTHING is guaranteed short of death! TRUTH is not a guarantee because it’s subject to interpretation. My truth may not be your truth, and what you consider to be true may only be partial fact.  LOVE is not a guarantee because it’s subject to emotion. He loves me today because we’re intimate, but tomorrow when I say or do something he’s not pleased with,  is it still “LOVE”, or is it now just situational tolerance?  Even the bible tells us that our next BREATH is not a guarantee. We are a vapor that can vanish without warning.

SO…because nothing is guaranteed, why worry about what is or isn’t fair in life? Paul tells us to take no thought about our lives – what we eat or what we wear because just as God feeds the birds of the air and clothe the fields in beautiful colors, He will surely take care of us – His prized creation. Don’t worry about tomorrow…let tomorrow worry about itself. Today, just live the life you love, and love the life you live!

Peace: Spiffy~