“Ten, Nine, EIGHT, even, sekx, eve, four, three, TWO,
ONE…BLASToff” my three old one can now count down. Where has the time gone? I cannot believe that just yesterday she was
a baby…and I thought parents were crazy when they said that. Life is just too
fast and it just seems to be getting faster and
faster…as we rush around getting everything done before our “clocks” run
out or at least before anyone and everyone else I truly have to ask myself is
this all that we are meant to do.
I would say that life now is busier than it was, but I’m not
sure that is the case. Instead I would suggest that as long as humans have been
around, life has been busy. Today it is
a different kind of busy but as the end of it all we are trying to
survive…making money to spend money to live (instead of out hunting and
gathering.) And what do we have to show
for it? Most of us don’t make the
history books but instead only live on in memories and we don’t remember people
who were so busy that they didn’t make time for us…
Maybe I am rambling, maybe I’m feeling a bit old tonight as
I look on my children who seem to be growing in a blink of an eye, maybe I’m
just realizing how long ago high school was but I think I have a good point
here. Without the HOLY, without finding
time for God in our lives and in our days, than we are just wondering around so
busy that it is a good thing we don’t have to think to breath.
It isn’t about taking the time to sit and smell the roses,
it is about taking the time to sit and examine our lives and our relationship
with God – it is about looking forward to what is to come instead of dreading
it. As we have been trying to trust God
these last few months, I am forced to stop from my crazy and hectic life and
thank God for the blessings that I do have.
To find thanksgiving within the small and every day. If I don’t do that, the busy takes over and I
begin to lose purpose.
So, tonight I am sitting back and enjoying my children, my
husband, our life and most of all the God that I trust to provide all that we
need – because up till now God hasn’t let us down. J
