Are You Alive Today?
What is the purpose of this current day in the scheme of your life? Was today productive, a waste, non-existant? Is looking for tomorrow the purpose of getting through today?
I realize I am no the first to go down this line of questioning (not even the first in my blog circle), but I can't help thinking that the way we look at our time is so backwards. we scratch and claw to get through each day towards...what?...a car?...a house?...retiremtent?...the weekend?...then what? That's not a purpose. Living your life to reach a certain point in time/status is not a reason to live. We tend to look at our time like a resource and, while I agree that we should make the most of the time we are given, it's not something to be horded. Each and every day is a complete gift with an equal possibility for joy, sadness, love, regret, hope...
I know there are times in life when I must do things I don't want to and days which never seem to end, but I want to stop living each day as though I'm merely surviving it and live like I was meant to...like God meant for me to. Perhaps you could think of it as Life to the Fullest! I like the sound of that!
posted by Chuck @ 3:39 PM
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4 Comments:
No Chuck. We are dead. Sorry to dissapoint.
thanks chuck, i needed that, university is easy to look at as a means to an end.
"I have come that they might have life and have it more abundantly" - John 10:10 - now, this minute, this day!!! Thanks for the reminder Chuck.
love Shirley
The purpose of my day occurred at precisely 8:45 am this morning.
I was on my way to an important series of tasks in order to prepare for a meeting. As I was heading out the door Alisa called to me and asked if there was any way I could do the dishes and clean up the kitchen and do some other stuff with the kids - even though earlier she said that she would do all this stuff because she knew I had this meeting.
arrrgggg....if I'm not prepared for this meeting I'll look like an idiot...
I chose to look like an idiot, and stay behind and help out.
Ordinary mundane choices - the stuff that the christian life is made of. been thinking about that all day long. still am.
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