hand crafted masterpiece

Have you ever heard the song “Benjamin” by Sanctus Real?
It’s about the lead singer who is welcoming his son into the world in the same hospital that on a different floor his dad is being diagnosed with terminal cancer. It’s a song that’s about both life, and death at the same time. People think that if you think too much about death than you aren’t really living and you should just live and do what feels good now. I think that’s a message our culture loves to send. But thinking about death makes me hold life more dear. This isn’t because im afraid to die.(Im gonna dance with Jesus!) This is because im afraid not to truly live. Not to truly serve God and all others to my potential. To waste my talents.and to be judged for wasting them.(Matthew 25:14-30). My time here is short really. In the big scheme of things. It’s a blink. I don’t want to wake up at 36 or 52 and feel like I never really lived. This isn’t Tuck Everlasting folks. So I think about my precious time here and it helps me live. I think about the people that God has put in my life and it overwhelms me. Its crazy that I even know these people. Like so your born and live in the same time period as someone else and then you live where they live and you go to church where they go or you go to school where they go or you see them in the grocery store. Its like wow. All the people you will see in the duration of your life is such a small minuscule fraction of all the people who have ever lived. And lets talk about time frame. Im so glad I was born now and not a hundred years ago (Although I like to think me and Susan B. Anthony would have been good pals) My lifes views would have been so different. I would have probally worked towards rights my whole life that I already have at age 21. And other people have paved the way for that with their life’s work. And now let’s talk about family. God picked my one mom one dad one brother one sister on Uncle John bob do you get the drift? You are not only Unique but the people in your life are unique too. And not only that but the people that your closest too is such a complete gift. That you met them. Some might say I’m looking to far into something that seems so simple. But if you knew the people in my life you would understand that they fit so well into my life. I treasure them and each one of them and each one of my close friends adds something so specific so unique to them that Im glad they weren’t born in the 1700s in England or in 1899 in Idaho. Or Im glad my college friends were born in the late 80s early 90s. do you get the drift? Its craz. Your life is truly a chose your own adventure book and I think the people are a HUGE part of that adventure. My new favorite movie (gasp I know) is Shawshake Redemption and in that Morgan Freeman says” I guess it comes down to a simple choice. Get busy living or get busy dying”. I chose to live and I chose to acknowledge the absolutely beautiful people Christ has filled my life with.
Friends, Your life is a Unique, Hand crafted masterpiece by the God of the Universe. What more could you ask for?