Friday, December 5, 2008

to really live

How many days have gone by, how many weeks, months and years. Periods of time in which we simply went through the motions. I would like to say that it is never that way for a Christian, but that would not be true. I would like to say that I never feel that way, but that would not be true either.

What causes it? We are busy. We get discouraged. We forget to celebrate. We stop saying thank you. We get disconnected.

We were not designed to live this way.

Yes you may have been hurt. You may be hiding in life. You may find relief in being busy, but this is not the ideal. From somewhere deep inside of us, our hearts still yearn to live. To love, to dance to smile. To come out from the shadows and embrace life. Imagine yourself doing just that. I sneak out from behind the cloud that I live behind, and I say "Hello world, hello God, hello life!"

In the Bible, the book of 1 Timothy speaks of the "life that truly is life." Jesus spoke of the abundant life. It is not our busy, crabby, go through the motions, wish it were different life. It is a life of joy that he has already given to us. How do we find it? Open your eyes, stop focusing on the unhappiness and grab ahold of the good. Listen to the birds. Feel the wind on your face. Hug a friend, make a new friend. Laugh, love, live.

It's a beautiful day in God's world, which was meant to be lived to the fullest. Be sure to see the good.

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