Just some thoughts about life.
Was thinking about day to day life last night. Was thinking, what do other people survive on? Was thinking, life not lived with the Lord would become ... a drudgery. That's the word, DRUDGERY. Can you imagine? Everyday you live. You do some things because you have to. Like my dad works because he has to pay the bills. You do some things because you kind of want to. Like bringing up children. But in the end the big things are broken down into little things. And bringing up children is not about big things, mostly, that is. Mostly it's real little things, all those itty gritty details, fetching, making arrangements, eating, talking. It can get just so... MUNDANE, even though you do want to do it, then you just keep doing it, in the end it becomes just about all these little things, the sqabbles, the worries, the different details of each child. And in the end that becomes your life?!?
And I realise, well, that's what my parents are doing. That's what they seem to live life for, though mayhaps they never really sat down and thought about it. And if someone were to really ask them they wouldn't know. And that's what they live for?!? I can't imagine. How? Like how?
Then I thought perhaps that's because they never knew life could be different. They never thought there could be something more, something better, and something that looks unimaginable to me may be all they know. Perhaps that's why. But I know I could not be content with a life like that anymore, because I do know there is more. Imagine the throngs of people everyday, living for the sake of living. Living because they'd prefer it to dying. Imagine, living because you don't want to die... ?!?
And sometimes life is about big things. Very big things. Like sacrifice and pain and death. Like when Jesus suffered. Those are the times nobody ever thinks what's life for.
Well there are some "interesting" things in life. Someone getting married. A baby born. Someone graduates. Even the bad things. Someones dies. A divorce. Someone goes away. Even these things are set aside from the repetitiveness of everyday life. So perhaps these are the things that makes life more like life for most people. The big things, the interesting things.
But what really makes life life? What makes it life for me? When I see the Lord, I know I'm alive. That's all. I guess it's like falling in love. People who are in love never wonders what is life for. Just to know each other, to live for each other, is life. And you see a wide horizon of future open before you. That's so alive.
And God made human love that image of His own love, when life is truly alive. So real life is a lifetime of being in love with the Lord. Life is falling in love!
And that's true, when I'm with Him things just can't look mundane. Because all those little things are not about themselves anymore.
In open fields of wild flowers
She breathes the air and flys away
She thanks Jesus for
The daisies and the roses
In no simple language
Someday she'll understand
The meaning of it all
He's more than the laughter
Or the stars in the heaven
As close as a heartbeat
Or the song on her lips
Someday she'll trust Him
And learn how to see Him
Someday He'll call her
And she will come running
Fall in His arms, the tears will fall down
And she'll pray
I want to fall in love with You
I want to fall in love with You
I want to fall in love with You
I want to fall in love with You
Sitting silent wearing sunday best
The sermon echos through the wall
A great salvation from it goes to the people
Staring to nowhere
Can't feel the chains on their soul
He's more than the laughter
Or the stars in the heaven
As close as a heartbeat
Or the song on our lips
Someday we'll trust Him
And learn how to see Him
Someday He'll call us
And we will come running
Fall in His arms, the tears will fall down
And we'll pray
I want to fall in love with You
I want to fall in love with You
I want to fall in love with You
I want to fall in love with You
It seems too easy to call You saviour
Not close enough to call You God
So as I sit and think of
Words I can mention
To show my devotion
