So I decided I wanted to start blogging... mainly because I'm always getting these little revelations and want to share them. God is always showing me so many cool little things... I've so many already. Who knows... maybe this blog will end up being a little sermon site... haha. I'll be trying to figure out what to preach on and just go grab one of my blogs. =) God shows me things in the most random situations... pictures.... people... videos..... what have you. I wanna write em down and maybe you'll get something out of it too!
Here is one of my favorite photos... I took it way back in the day... probably about 2005... not actually that long ago. =) Anyways... There is this old old barbeque in our backyard. Apparently my great grandfather built it. As long as I can remember my sister and I sat on this thing and played on it and around it. Using it to hold as a wall to our forts. I never saw it used as a barbeque. But my dad remembers days of it being used to make burgers and such. Anyways... as I grew older the bricks began to decay and the center began to fall out. We could no longer sit on it or jump off it because it may just fall apart under us. It sat there.... alone.... dying.... not being used for anything. Simply taking up space in the backyard. Until one sunny fall day when I stepped outside.... and there were these flowers.... spilling out from the center of this old, falling apart, brick barbeque. What true beauty this was. This barbeque that sat there.... thought to never be used again... was now filled with some of the most simple, beautiful creation on God's earth, flowers.
The reason this sticks out to me so much now is because I believe it pertains to our life in so many ways! As we grow from a small child to an elder we pass through many stages. We walk through so many doors God opens for us. We don't have the same purpose from beginning to end. We're used for so many different things. There are probably times where we feel like we're totally useless... like we're stuck in between here and there... like we're just waiting, wondering, if that next goal and dream is just around the corner. At those times that we feel we can no longer be used for anything... whether it be because we've messed up... or we've just grown old and tired... we don't realize that inside us a seed has been planted for another new beginning. Our focus is shifting... we're being used as a different vessel. And most times we'll be used in ways one would never expect.... just like this barbeque.... going from being used to make delicious lunches and dinners.... to being used as a play tower, to jump off and rely on as a sturdy wall... to being used as a flower pot. Of all things.... a flower pot... something to bring such beauty to our backyard landscape.
So whether you're just beginning... or you're between here and there... know you've got a purpose. Know there is something inside... something.... that is beautiful.
We can never forget that life is a process, and that it consists of many different seasons. Although each of these seasons serves a different purpose, they are all incredibly important, and it is of vital importance that we experience each season to its fullest potential.
ReplyDeleteIt's so easy to fall into the grind that is routine, everyday life, and it's important that we wake up every day realizing that life is an experience, a process. We must live with the big picture in mind.
Otherwise we'll forget that life is all about living.
Everyone dies, but few truly live. Let's not forget to live.