This past week I’ve been able to spend with my grandparents down in south Texas. It’s always interesting to spend time with people who are older and have already lived a majority of their lives. Even if you know someone you may never really know all of them, their pasts, desires, regrets and triumphs. I continually wonder what will my life be like when I am 80 or will I even live that long? I know I am not guaranteed another day on earth and I really don’t know if I want to live that long.
I went to see the movie Revolutionary Road tonight. While I think it’s a good movie I am not necessarily suggesting it to everyone, especially people who like feel good movies. The two main characters end up in a mundane life just like every one else they live around. At one point they devise a plan to get out and live out their dreams but they get caught up in what their friends and their culture said they should be doing. Their friends think of their plans as irrational and childish and after hearing the same responses from everyone the characters begin thinking the same way, and it leads to them giving up their dreams.
I wonder as I sit with my grandparents, other seasoned adults and well anyone, what are the dreams and revolutionary ideas that we have given up on because the world and our “rational” thinking friends think we should put away our childish ways and conform to the society we live in.
Maybe you are young like me feeling the pressure of your family and friends telling you that you should get a job with good health insurance. Maybe you’ve been working for a while and you’re just doing it because well it’s just what you do right? Or maybe you think so rationally that you can’t quite wrap your brain around why you would want to give up everything in your life or just some things to follow your dreams and the passions the Lord has sparked in you. I think why not is the best question! Why not follow your dreams? Why not allow the Lord to lead you off of a cliff into the great unknown? There is the other alternative of continuing on with your life and leaving behind your dreams.
If you’ve never jumped off the cliff for the Lord you’re really missing out! There’s no greater place to live than in the center of the Lord’s will.
Whether it’s the World Race or something only God knows about don’t think twice follow your heart and that small voice that’s nudging you, you won’t regret it!!!
Live without REGRETS today! Don’t get to 80 and be saying “what if”? Get out there and see where you end up, you’ll surely be surprised!
