"I'm not sure why it always goes down hill, why broken cisterns never could stay filled..."
I have a friend,Piper, she is the sweetest women I have ever met. She will give anyone a cavity in a matter of seconds. The crazy thing is that Piper hasn't had the easiest life but no one would ever know that about her. She just glows, she loves with so much compassion, with no judgement. She is like a girl Jesus. Sometimes when I think about who I would like to be like, I would have to say Piper. She reminds me of Melanie Hamilton from Gone with the Wind.
Someone near to her is in the hospital tonight. He is probably going to die. But you know, even though she knew all this, as we were hanging out tonight you would have never known. She still was uplifting as ever. She is strong, she has a strength that is tough as nails, three nails. I wonder if she knows that...
Tonight reminded me of something I once read. Back in Moses' day they would keep themselves focused on God by understanding a very important concept. That concept would be the concept of today. NOW. What is right now. Not tomorrow. Not the day after tomorrow. Not next month. Today.
I think that's a beautiful concept. God has given us this breath in our lungs. This breath, this oxygen that we are currently breathing. He has given it to us for a reason. It is blessing, overlooked and taken for granted.
I'm not God, but I don't think Jesus would want us to waste this precious gift on things that don't change the world. On things that don't have lasting impact. On things that aren't of eternity.
I mean, to dwell on the negative, to wish for what could have been, to gripe about what you don't have but NEED EVER SO DEARLY.
From experience, I like to believe these things erase "today." We are so focused on past or future events we completely forget that we posses a gift called "today." Which makes today have only one purpose, to pass time, until we are finally reach tomorrow.
But tomorrow isn't even promised. And if tomorrow isn't promised and we have this mindset, it makes today a waste of time.
Which leads me back to my story of Piper and the death of a loved one she might experience...
It's cliche, but we really aren't promised tomorrow. We should do something great in the now.
Something glorifying.
RIGHT NOW.
