AwakeAlertAlive: Should Have Learned the First Time

So today I sat a wet coffee mug onto a pink sticky not as I left for class, and as you can see, the water caused the pink die to color my desk...wonderful. Now I have to scrub it off again. Oh did you catch that last word? Again.  Yes, this has happened once before. You would think that after the first time I would realize that if a stick note gets wet, it is going to bleed. 

As I'm looking at the pink part of my desk, I am reminded of how many other times I do that in my life.  Not with trivial things like sticky notes and water, but with bigger things such as lessons that God has tried to teach me.  Sometimes, I wish I paid more attention to the things He tries to show me, so that when I come across that same situation again, I am prepared. 

This reminds me of a coachism from Camp Marietta in 2010: "Open Eyes." If you don't have open your eyes you might miss out on an opportunity God has for you whether that is picking up an orange traffic cone that has fallen over, picking up trash lying on the ground, spending time with and showing attention to a camper, or noticing when a somebody needs a word of encouragement.  If I'm not paying attention and heading the lessons God has taught me in the past, I might overlook something He wants to show me. 

I must be AWAKE. I must be ALERT. I must be ALIVE. 

Or as Katie M. and I decided to say, "awakealertalive!"