nothing fancy, just what we need.

December 21, 2010

I’ve been thinking more and more about the future lately.  The vast, big question mark that is my future.  There are a lot of things I don’t know.  A LOT of things.  I don’t know what I’m going to do, or where I’m going to be, or who I’m going to be with.

But I know that I want more than “fine”.  I want to do work that I feel has purpose.  I want spend my time experiencing things instead of watching them on t.v.  I want to live freely, not constrained by what most consider “security”.  I want to not be concerned with how much money I’m making.  I want to save and spend it wisely, but I don’t care about a big house or expensive things.  Like I said, I want to DO and TRY things.  Not have a bunch of “stuff”.  Most of all, I want to learn and grow in a deeper understanding of what love is, what it means.  I want to better know and be moved by the great love of the Father.

I think that lots of people are so busy working, working, working, and accumulating STUFF, and trying and failing and trying harder and striving after all kinds of things– success, beauty, pleasure, fame, wealth, power, popularity, relief from pain and brokenness.  I see it all the time at school- SMART kids with goals anddreams.  But much of what the majority of us strive for is ultimately meaningless, and will not bring us the joy or satisfaction we think it will.

In Colorado last summer, we passed a little general store in a little town whose catch-phrase was: “nothing fancy, just what we need”.  The truth is, Christ is ALL we need.  And most other things just get in the way, cloud our view of that simple, glorious truth.

“For you were made to meet your Maker”  …  If I miss this, what has my life been for or about?