The past few days I haven't had enough time in the morning to blog, but today a few minutes have appeared. One of the threads through my morning meditations has been life and what we do with it. I think as children, we spend our existence impatiently waiting for something. We wait for kindergarten, and then we quickly look forward to summer vacation. We can't wait to be a teen and then to drive and the graduate and then to college. And then? We longing look back at our childhood wishing to do it over again because now life is so busy we can't enjoy it anymore.
Perhaps, the best way to live life is somewhere in between; somewhere where we are accomplishing things but realize the moment for what it is -- a gift from God. I am starting to see that God is waiting for us in those moments where life isn't getting in the way. Those five minutes after class and before the next one begins, God is there waiting for me. If only I could appreciate that time with him in communion with others! Think about how much of our lives are spent waiting for something, pining for a person or an activity. All thought is about how wonderful it is going to be. Just like the child pining for his driver's license, he misses all the joys of childhood looking forward to becoming a teen. That's the regret we feel later in our adult lives. We wasted so much of our childhood waiting to grow up. Is that the way we want to look back over our lives? Do I want to reach my "Golden Years" and wish I hadn't wasted so much time waiting for things to happen? Besides, life is so fragile, that tomorrow or even ten minutes from now, my life could be over.
So, since I'm in the adding discipline to my life mode, I think that I will try to use every single minute of my day doing something. I'm not going to look back and think that the majority of my life was sitting in the theater watching stupid commercials waiting for the movie to start.
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