It seems like we are always waiting. Waiting for the next stage of life. Once we hit that, we are looking forward to the next big thing. While I was at work today I was thinking about some of the girls there. A couple of them are in grade 11. I thought back to when I was in grade 11 and how excited I was that high school was half over, and that at the end of next year I would graduate. I got to university and was looking forward to finishing that. Now I am looking forward to the race, counting down until I leave.
What a waste of time.
Life happens between all the things we wait for. My best memories of high school are enjoying the day to day life of friends, extra-curricular activities and just being 16. Those days almost passed me by as I waited to graduate and be out on my own. Here I am again waiting for the World Race, wasting away the time God has given me to live now. What is going to happen in a couple of years from now as I think back to this time in life? I will probably remember how I was looking forward to it being finished. There must be something better! I have 7 whole weeks before the World Race departs. I need to make the most of those 49 days, or 1176 hours. That is a lot of time that I need to make worth while. Otherwise, as in the words of Steve Miller “time will keep on slipping into the future”. One day I will wake up and wonder what happened to my life, and realize that it passed me by while I was waiting for it to happen.
Do you do that? Do you just keep waiting? Your life begins now! Stop waiting and start living! I encourage you this week every day to get out of bed with purpose. Set a goal each day that you want to accomplish. This doesn’t have to be big, it could be to cook a nice meal for dinner, or finish all the jobs you need to do at work. Have a purpose for living each day so that you can feel accomplished at the end. Stop waiting for tomorrow, and enjoy life today. Instead of waiting for the next 7 weeks to pass, I am going to live the next 7 weeks enjoying each day, and recognizing that every day is a gift.
