I know many people these days say I wish this year was over! I completely agree! Can it just be over already? Why do we have to keep on wishing our lives away because of the craziness this year has brought on our lives? My answer is most of us have in our heads if the election is over we can go back to some kind of normal, but my skeptical mind has trouble even believing in that these days.
As you can probably tell from many of my post, music comforts and encourages me. This morning I was driving to do a grocery pick up and I heard Jeremy Camp singing “Keep me in the moment”. It goes something like this, “Oh Lord, keep me in the moment, help me live with my eyes wide open, cause I don’t want to miss what you have for me…Oh Lord, show me what matters, throw away what I’m chasing after, cause I don’t want to miss what you have for me.”
I listened to the words and got to thinking, I need to live in this moment. I have two sweet babies in my life who I want to freeze in the moment! I do not want them to get any bigger. I want them to hold and snuggle for as long as I am able. I know this is not possible, they are going to grow, but I want to live in those moments. Moments where those sweet babies learn to walk, learn to talk, learn to say I love you!
Even though we all want to hit fast-forward on this year, and I am with you 100%! We need to stop and think about what we have right this moment. What can we do to keep it in the moment? Can we realize we are fortunate to live in a country that has elections? That is able to unanimously decide who we want as our president, instead of being told who that will be and how we must act every day of our lives.
Do we stop and appreciate the people who ask so much from us? Children and grandchildren, sisters and brothers, moms and dads asking us to do them what seems like a million favors weekly. Can we just stop and be thankful they are here to ask something from us? If they weren’t here tugging at us, we would be beside ourselves missing them.
“I’ve been thinking about time, and where does it go, how can I stop my life from passing me by I don’t know”… I love these words, but I think we do know what happens with time and where it goes. We know time is fleeting. When someone is taken you get an even bigger picture of that fact.
We have the ability to live in the moment. Quit rushing around and slow down and focus. No, I do not want the babies in my life to grow up. I don’t want my sweet niece, Ava Claire to turning 11! No, I do not want these things, but I do want to keep doing life with them. I want to get up every day and know even if I do not see any of these sweet people I love, I can call them. I can text them and tell them I am thinking of them. As long as they are here, that is all that matters.
Ecclesiastes 3:1 says, “to everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven”. (ESV). The Bible tells us for time for every purpose. Every moment of time, God has already worked it out for us, for His good. Let us always remember wishing our lives away is not the answer. There is a season for everything. Don’t forget to live every moment in that moment…live as not another second is promised, except for right now. Cherish the ones you love!
Digging Deeper 