Friday, September 25, 2009

This actually freaks me out a little bit,

thinking about this. many of you may have heard this song by 33 miles called "one life to love." i hear it on the radio fairly often and i guess it's had it's desired effect, b/c i always feel stricken when i hear it.

sample lyrics:
you only get just one time around
you only get one shot at this
one chance to find out
the one thing that you don't want to miss
one day when it's all said and done
i hope you'll see that it was enough, this
one ride
one try
one life to love
it just makes me think of all the things i do that mean absolutely nothing. there will never again be another time in my life when i have this window of opportunity with lou. i will never again be able to enjoy shiloh as a three year-old. what am i teaching them? what are they learning from me? what example am i showing them?

heaven lasts for eternity. forever. and forever on top of forever. and then some. our lives here are are nanosecond compared to how long we'll live in heaven and literally every second counts. and let's say that you don't even believe in God or Heaven or Hell or any of that -- you'll still die one day, and you're never getting this time back. what are we doing with it?

i know that this is just a late-night rant stemming from a sugar high (lotsa sweet tea per erin/chik-fil-a. long night.), but i do wonder these things. i will never get another chance to impact my children for Christ like i have today. we think about things so moment-to-moment that we hardly ever stop to look at the big picture, the long-term effects of what we do. it's why so many of us are entrenched in debt, why we lend ourselves to destructive habits like smoking and excessive drinking. why we lie. why we're gluttons. why we put off making any definitive decision for Christ, pretending that the issues either don't exist or don't matter.

i just heard this song on the way home tonight and felt the need to share. again -- late night, tired, too much sugar, take it for what it's worth. but still...

at any rate, i attached a video with the song if you wanna listen.
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