Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you suddenly like a trap. Luke 21:34
Are you stuck in the mud of life swirling around you?
Dwelling too much on plans, disappointments, or perfection?
You will only have this day one time.
One time.
How are you spending your time?
Obsessing with the nitty gritty life details?
Or doing your best while allowing God to work through you?
A year from now will you remember what you did today?
Will you remember that situation that wrecked your day?
Unless it’s a truly tragic situation, which does not happen often, you won’t.
You won’t remember that specific annoyance.
So why are you letting it invade your thoughts now?
My grandmother loved to remind us that not much matters when you look down from the balcony of heaven.
Garden bugs, broken washing machines, hail, misdelivered packages, or ungrateful children.
None of that really matters when you think about perspective.
Yes, God calls us to deal with life.
And deal with life we should.
But what really matters when you stop and think about it?
Eternity.
Yours, and everyone else’s.
What are you doing to help others to that end?
When you get to heaven, will you regret not fixing more homemade meals?
Will you regret your clothing size or your address?
Nope. You will see how short life really is.
You will see how you fit within the space of God’s line of people.
And that, my friends, is but a blip.
We have this day only one time.
Let’s make it count for the kingdom of God instead of the kingdom of self.
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Amy Linnea 
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