Just thinking about how the best part of completing something, whether it's cleaning out my car, converting all my CDs to my ipod, rolling coins, running errands, writing papers, finishing a good book, etc., is not how I feel right when I complete it but when I look back on it later and think, oh wow, I actually finished that, and I forget how much time it actually took up because it's suddenly a couple of steps behind me and, distanced from it, I don't ever have to think about it again.
And then I consider that my entire life is comprised of a range of of seemingly important tasks that I list in my mind and focus my all on completing, only to put them behind me, like climbing a ladder while looking down so I don't realize there's nothing at the top til my hand doesn't reach anything. It's like playing Mahjong, matching up tiles at top speed just so you can turn over new ones because that's what the rules say you're supposed to do, and all you're left with at the end is an empty table.
There's got to be something more to life than this.
And then I consider that my entire life is comprised of a range of of seemingly important tasks that I list in my mind and focus my all on completing, only to put them behind me, like climbing a ladder while looking down so I don't realize there's nothing at the top til my hand doesn't reach anything. It's like playing Mahjong, matching up tiles at top speed just so you can turn over new ones because that's what the rules say you're supposed to do, and all you're left with at the end is an empty table.
There's got to be something more to life than this.
Katie, i know i dont know you very much, but i read your blog post, and i just wanted to share a passage from the bible that always encourages me to know that God, life, etc. has so much in store for everyones lives.
"I count all things to be a loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord for whom i have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish in order that i may gain Christ, and may be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith, that i may know him and the power of his ressurection and the fellowship of his sufferings being conformed to his death in order that i may attain to the ressurection from the dead. not that i have already obtained it, or have already become perfect, but i press on in order that i may lay hold of that for which also i was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. Friends, i do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing i do: forgetting what lies behind, and reaching forward to what lies ahead, i press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus"