So "Be here, now!"
That is the recurrent theme of my life lately and woke up this AM and in my quiet time alone in my room, sitting listening, reading His word and praying literally on my knees I thought "Today could be the last day of your life?" What? Did I hear that right God? Not really today... really? I prayed "Lord your will not mine" and secretly hoped it was just yet again another wake up call, another eyes wide open moment for me to realize embracing each moment - rushed breakfast with R the grouchy patient who doesn't even want therapy, the long drive between facilities on a county road, little people with K when I get home and really would like to just close my eyes and call it a night, whatever that moment might be - is the only way it can be. I want to experience every second of it fully. I'm learning that I am sooooo blessed to be such a passionate person, life is so rich, so full of so much we miss when we get caught up by the things of this world.
Keep thinking of Garth Brook's song "Life is not tried it is merely survived if your standing outside the fire" and then a song by a band called Fee (song is titled "Blink") "It happens in a blink, it happens in a flash, it happens in the time it takes to look back. We try to hold on tight but there's no stopping time..."
So tonight my passion is this... Be Here, NOW!! No regrets. No second chances, unless God blesses us with another shot at it tomorrow and that's no guarantee.
A local church had this on their sign for weeks and I'd be almost past it before I'd think about stopping to take a picture and now it's changed but it said "We don't change the message, the message changes us."
I humbly ask tonight What if IT changed your life? And sit here tonight so richly blessed it blows my mind and say to you He has changed mine. Thank you God for eyes that see (figuratively as I'm legally blind without contacts and glasses don't even cut it anymore :)!!!
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