BJ's blog comment from the movie Stranger Than Fiction got me thinking. I put "Harold Crick lived his life" with a closing line from another movie I like, Secondhand Lions: "So they really lived?" "Yes, the REALLY lived!"
How do we live our lives? For many of us, it is mechanical, non-thinking, habitual. We are focused on fun and excitement and simply look ahead to the next big event. No plan, no pain, no passion. Confusion abounds, because we are looking - not at long or short term goals, but on the next week-end, the next vacation, new house, retirement. The focus is on self and that is a small, sad world.
Many Americans have missed the point of the life God has given to them - it's the little things, the journey itself that is important. It is each moment that is the key. The few major decisions that we actually make are driven by the groundwork we have laid in the everyday. Because so much of our lives are in the mundane, everyday routine, it is the rountines that actually shape our lives.
When we come to understand this, we see that even the small, everyday decisions and routines are golden. These seemingly small events have an affect far beyond the moment. This gives great meaning and purpose to everything that we do. it makes our lives high quality every day, every moment. And then we really live, as God intended.
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Yah, and when you get rid of the small, everyday routines you realize just how golden they were when nothing works out quite right. I live by routines. I don't always feel like they are high quality, but I get your point.
And sometimes we need to get out of the routine to see what else God might have for us, if we'd just give him a chance to show us. If we weren't rushing to everything that we've crammed into our schedules, we might see the guy on the side of the road who needs a ride, or the cashier in WalMart who's having a terrible day.
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