When you are knocked down, BOUNCE!

Life is really shocking sometimes.  Just when you feel so safe and secure, bammo!  The real test is to see how long it takes to get back up, because you know you will eventually have to get on with life.  As Mother Theresa said "It's more important to be faithful than it is to be successful."  So, when my life gets flipped upside down, I need to remember that I will get back up because I have Jesus and He makes me strong enough.  I would like the time between the being knocked down and the getting up to be a lot closer together.  I think that when I reach the point when I bounce, I will have arrived.  When I can get  hit with any and everything life has to offer that seems horrific, and just bounce right back, spending no time at all on the ground-- then, then I will have arrived at the point God had planned for me all along.  His plan is for me to bounce!