Life is amazingly complicated at times, or is it?

Is life complicated, or do we make our lives complicated with self induced complication? If you never signed up to do anything, if you were not involved in any other activity other than your job, would your life be complicated? Is it human nature to make things complicated, even when there really is nothing there to make your life complicated? I ask these questions because I do have a job that keeps me very busy with 100's of customers and a large geography that requires weekly travel. Since I can't say no to anything - I am very involved with my church as a weekend worship leader, pioneering a new urban ministry, and involved with small groups. For fun and recreation I am on a sailing crew on a Melges 24 that sails year around throughout the country. I run every day and participate in as many 5 and 10K's as I can. I am also very involved in my kids activities - even though they are both grown and out of the house - but it's hard to not be involved with them in all of their activities too. My wife and I are also in that sandwich mode where we are constantly thinking about our aging parents and wondering what life may throw at us from that direction as well. All in all, life is good! Oh, did I mention that we are trying to sell our home of 16 years and moving downtown KC into a loft to be an integral part of our church's urban ministry team? We are VERY excited about this, however we must sell our home to do it. We already have the loft reserved, but we need a buyer for our house!
With all this stress - mainly because of the house situation - sometimes it is hard to stay positive. However, you have to ask; what is the alternative? You must stay positive and have hope, because otherwise you would waller in self pity and continue to feel overwhelmed! At times this is very hard to do - mainly when I have not had enough sleep. When I am tired, I tend to get "stinkin thinkin" much easier than when I have had plenty of rest. Good nutrition, plenty of rest, daily exercise and prayer are keys to staying positive and maintaining hope. Life at times is very difficult, for example, right now we are not facing any major health issue's. Life gets real hard and even scary when you are facing a life threatening illness. And this is where you better have your spiritual well being in good order - you must know where you came from and who will ultimately bring you home - knowing these things gives us the hope that everything will be OK, no matter what happens. Life is Good - God is good!