A Little Moment in Eternity

We have a new edition to the family! A beautiful baby boy! He is one of many that I have watched from within the womb through images, to watching them grow into adults. The moments cheering from the stand at the football games, track meets, band performances, and soooo much more. The milestones of graduation, driver’s license, first jobs, business dreams, marriages, and children. All the pebbles of life I get to appreciate when I think on the fact that at one time, it was just me in the womb waiting to enter this world..

Over this life, there are also the valleys and the mountains. All the lives that have passed on before me that left an imprint on my mind and sense of being. The wonderful insight they have shared by how they lived their life in the valley. How to overcome illness, financial hardship, bad relationships, grief, and lost love. I have heard it said, it is better to learn from other’s experience rather than learn on your own. But, I have found I learn best from my own failures.

To reach the mountain top, I must dig my feet into the crevices and get a foothold on the challenges ahead. I have stumbled on some uneven ground on the various paths that I thought were going to be an easy stroll. I have experienced twisted ankles, stubbed toes, and enduring hip pain on my quest to walk different trails, figuratively and literally.

The hour glass of time can seem to stream at different speeds. On a very good day, it pours rapidly from top to bottom. On a not so good day, it seems like I can count each grain of sand, that is not a pebble, but crushed rock that highlights my faults and my weakness.

But always in the shadows in this strong voice that reminds me, “Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up”. Galatians 6″9

Life may seem gloomy at times as if it were drip- drip- dripping at a very exhausting pace. Life is always worth living to see what good thing may be ahead. Like a new born waiting to take on the world and being there to witness more joy, more triumphs, some pain, some grief, more love.

So I press on in a new day to live boldly, abundantly, and with the confidence of God’s grace through Christ to appreciate all the moments that remain with me for eternity. And the joy that comes with the announcement- ” For unto us a child is born, unto us a child is given..” Isiah 9:6

Always grateful,