Ever Have Those Days?
Do you ever have those days that you just sit and think and reminisce about old days? You try to do something constructive or think about something else, but your mind just wanders back to friends you used to know, faces that used to be familiar, places that used to be called home…
Today has been one of those days for me. I’m at home in Franklin for spring break. It’s a Friday afternoon… I’ve been trying to work on a paper that is due next week when I get back to school, but my mind just keeps drifting. I’ve been sorting through more of the wedding pictures from Julie and Nick’s wedding… looking at pictures always brings back a lot of memories for me. I guess it does for anyone. But pictures especially mean a lot to me. I’m a very visual person (if you couldn’t tell from the fact that I love photography), and I love telling a story or remembering a story with pictures instead of words…you know what I mean?
But yeah. I have been thinking back a lot to about a year and a half ago when my family and I moved back from our home in England. Sheffield, England was my home for ten years… I guess you could say that I have a lot of memories there. I’ve been thinking back to a lot of my friends that I had there. I mean, it’s been a year and a half now since I have seen any of them - that’s a long time. It’s strange how much people change in that time.
I’m listening to Mercy Me, Spoken For … the song “Crazy.” One line just caught my attention - “I have not been called to the wisdom of this world but to a God who’s calling out to me. And even though the world may think I am losing touch with reality, it would be crazy to choose this world over eternity.”
That’s a good reminder… I’ve been thinking so much about this world, my friends, my family, my stuff, my school, my future career. Today has definitely been one of those days that I did a lot of things inside my head.. in my thoughts… but that line just brought me back to remember that I have NOT been called to the things of this world, but rather to focus on my walk with the Lord. I haven’t been doing that lately…
Just a few thoughts and reminders for when you worry about the future… or the past. Let not your focus rest on the past or the future …but your ever present walk with the Father. First things first, right? :)
Published on 9 Mar 2007 at 5:48 pm.
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I was thinking about this today… trying to remember the last time I looked at something (or someone, for that matter) with an eternal persepective. Just even the thought that we are gonna live forever. Forever… my mind can’t even get around that!
Jess G. on 10 Mar 2007 at 6:45 pm.
Jessica, how are you and your family doing. Not sure if you remember us. We used to live next to your family in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. You and Austin played with our son, Collin. Austin used to play in the flowers under our stairwell. Tell your mom & dad hello.
Joe Brewster on 13 Mar 2007 at 11:16 am.
wow… hi. yeah, I remember Collin. If I recall correctly, Austin was really PULLING the flowers, haha ;)
Jess G. on 14 Mar 2007 at 3:31 pm.