"Try this with me. Imagine we are 1000 years into the future, standing beside our Father. There is a new heaven and a new earth. We are living in eternity…and there is a tiny little speck in front of us that represents our earthly lives. What really mattered to us back then? The Kingdom of Heaven was fast approaching…How did we spend our short time? What sorts of worries and stresses occupied our minds? How did we advance the gospel to the ends of the earth?" (@bysarahkim)
Okay, I'm going to type fast because my boys will be getting up from their nap at any moment. When I read this, it was like a ton of bricks right smack dab in the face....shocking and a little painful. As I wrote in previous posts, it's be a rougher time around here lately but it's also been an amazing time of learning and healing. I have ridden the train of haters of social media and all that its brought to our society (yada yada), but I have to admit that through it, God has introduced me to some pretty authentic women. Women who wouldn't know me if I ran into them at the supermarket and gave them a huge hug, (which I will absolutely do if I ever run into one of them at the supermarket....or Target, I guess.) Women who have openly spoken about battles of discontent, busyness, complaining, personal struggles like loss and anorexia and drug addiction, and all kinds of craziness that God took and wrote unimaginable stories with.
I took a step back and looked at my day thus far after reading this quote and it was a little bit of a sting to my attitude. Let me back up and say that lately, my attitude has not been so great. I wake up in the morning telling myself that nothing is going to steal my joy and then at the first sign of something not going according to MY plans (um, hello life?) I turn into someone who very much resembles the Grinch. (I don't get green and hairy but it gets close). What pieces of life are going to stand out in a thousand years? I'll be gone from this earth. So will my sons. And their children and so one. What will have mattered? What will be remembered? What will be passed down? Chains? Wisdom? Grace?
As I continue to receive my attitude adjustment from the Lord and watch Grace, Mercy, and Joy unspeakable raise in my life, the more I see the unimportant, silly stuff going on, and the differences that I need to allow in my life despite what "so and so" is doing.
Well, short and sweet and the end of nap time. I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving and that you survived Black Friday. Have a warm, happy weekend!
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