Appreciate What You Have
Hi everyone.
Hope you are well.
As I crossed the Bear tooth Pass I thought today about something.
You, me, all of us, we are all going to die.
I don’t care what you do. I don’t care what doctors you see. I don’t care how much you try so very hard to hold on to life, you are going to die.
You have no control over it.
God decides your life’s end. Not you.
As I looked over the mountains from nearly 11,000 feet above sea level, majesty before me in colors and textures watching my daughter bending over taking her photos of the little tiny mountain flowers that only bloom up above the tree line, I thought about how short it all is.
We are all fools in our striving for “life’s meaning”. We are idiots in the way in which we hold on to this place.
If the views I saw today are a glimpse into what heaven is like…well…I can’t get there soon enough.
We try so hard to make sense of life in our planning. In our attempting to find that perfect job, which we then make the biggest priority in our lives, taking for granted our kids, our grandkids, our spouses.
No, our work. By god, that’s all which matters.
Our careers. That’s the most important thing, right?
5 year plans, 10 year plans, where I will be at “retirement”.
NONE of which are biblical.
In fact, the counsel Jesus himself gives us is to live in today. “Why worry about the morrow”.
I think Americans in general have their priorities completely upside down.
I think Americans, nay, humanity, truly takes for granted life’s most important gifts as they slave and work over what they THINK matters, while they lose those things around them that truly do matter.
My daughter, today in our drive across Bear Tooth pass on our way to Bozeman shared a thought with me.
“You know dad, work is actually a curse as far as God is concerned. According to what I read in Genesis, work is a curse…a necessary thing we must do as a curse from Adam’s sin”.
She is 100% correct.
Work IS a curse.
Yes, we need to work.
But work is only a means by which we buy our food and shelter.
This bull sh*% we have made it into today has, and continues to, ruin families, marriages, relationships and general peace in life.
My daughter and I agreed that work is necessary. We must work if we want to eat as the apostle Paul suggests in his writings.
However, if it has become our identity and takes priority over things that really matter, well, we are making a stupid, really stupid mistake.
I think we would all do well to realign what’s imporant.
At the top of the list must be our physical selves. Then the relationships we maintain. Our spouses. Our kids. Our grandkids.
Friends come and go. In the end, they matter very little.
Just my thought from the top of the mountains in Montana today.
Take care of yourselves.
rob out
