Its June 1, 2014.
4 years ago today my wife's father died
very suddenly. The day prior we had returned from living and working
in Kuwait – also a sudden, unplanned event.
Life and death march on. There is no
reprieve from this cycle, no shifting of this course. Inevitable.
Unchangeable. It is what it is.
This truth gives perspective to how we
live. We all tend to fill life with an incredible amount of
investment in futures that may not come to fruition, often at a cost
of missing the moments that we possess today.
May I suggest there is a different
pulse to life which we need to join? Jesus Christ taught this when
He pointed out that there's enough worry & trouble and
unpredictability about tomorrow, so why not just live in and enjoy
today? He isn't saying to not plan, just don't live in tomorrow as
though it is today. Don't set aside the people and joy and tasks of
today for a tomorrow that might never come.
Ultimately, whether you will
acknowledge or believe it, God holds tomorrows agenda in His
sovereign hand. If and when you wake up tomorrow, you will receive
the 'orders of the day'. Only then will you know if the future you
envision has another day.
I am learning to let God arrange what
is needed to accomplish plans. My life has been one of future
thinking. I love ideas, plans, possibilities. Too often the future
has been my present and I have lost out on living IN today.
The events of 4 years ago – those
sudden invasions into my well ordered plans – have been the best
incursion ever.
I am learning to wait and to dwell in
today, to be content with what that day brings. My current project.
Encompass Partnerships (www.encompasspartnerships.org
– website goes live June 6) by this September will have been 4
years in the making. I feel I should be farther down the track. I
should have more partnerships. I should be pushing current partners
to dream bigger dreams and lay tracks for greater things we envision
for the future. I should be acting faster for the fulfillment of our
future.
BUT instead I am exercising increased
trust and willingness to join the pace of my God vs. pushing my own
time-lines. In the process I am discovering (why I am so SLOW!!?)
that He puts it all together in ways I could never have planned.
He also keeps His promise that His yoke
is easy and His burden is light, because in the end He is walking
with me into a future that only He knows.
So go ahead – live and love today.
Its all you really have until and unless He grants a tomorrow.
A fellow nomad;
Harv
