Life

Dear all,

I'm going to start off with a long quote from John Mayer, taken from JohnMayer.com where the cool cat actually posts his blog! coolness! but here it is..read it and chew on it..

"You're on an airplane, sleeping with your head against the window, your heart set on being home this time three hours from now. All of a sudden, something goes very wrong. The plane stops moving across the air and instead starts falling through it. The lights are flickering and the movie is skipping. The plane dips hundreds of feet in seconds, and the yellow cups fall from the ceiling. They're a brighter shade of yellow than you remember, because unlike the demonstration, these cups have never been handled before.

"Flight attendants take your seats now", you hear, the pilot's voice trembling over a cacophony of alert tones. You get that smell in the bridge of your nose like you've just been hit with a football. That's what the fear smells like. The plane is going down.Four more drastic drops in under a minute. People are crying.

For all the folklore about how your life flashes before your eyes, you're remarkably fixed on one vision - your parents. They're sleeping at this very moment, in a bedroom so quiet they can hear the clock in the kitchen. And you can see them, clear as can be. You wish you could see a playground or a first kiss, but all you can see is your parents sleeping. Huh. Well, that's that.Several long minutes go by.

Then, all at once, the lights come back on and the plane somehow rights itself. Some people cheer, but most people cry harder. The plane lands about an hour later, and as soon as you feel that touch down - hell, even when you were within 50 feet of the ground and could still technically survive a fall - you realize that however you brokered the deal between you and God worked; you've just been granted life in overtime.

Here's the question: what do you change? Whom do you call that you haven't spoken to in years? Whom do you realize has been toxic to your heart and drop with surprising ease? What trips do you cancel, and what trips do you book? What can't you be bothered with anymore? What's the new you like?

Think about that, and then ask one more question. Why not just change it all right now?"

and one more thing; remember in Hebrews 13:14

"For this world is not our permanent home; we are looking forward to a home yet to come"

so why are we so hung up on worldly possessions, reputations, impressions and everything else that comes with it, when it is all transient? why do we not proclaim our love for sake of future working relations, or friendship, or any other matter when it is all temporary?

If life were to end in the next moment, what would you do? If you realise that nothing you work for now is going to stay with you through your afterlife, would you still tink it's worthwhile?

How is your life going to be defined? When you see God finally, are you going to have a hard copy of your life's resume to show him? what are you going to tell your Abba father, to show him that you lived? TRULY lived?

-endz-