God loves to have us caught up in moments that make impacts on us that shake us and leave imprints on us that mold us
I am starting to realize more and more as I grow older that it isn’t the moments in life that are necessarily special.
It is our perception of them that makes them special.
I have ironically learned this in the most backward of ways.
I’ve noticed that moments I thought were “supposed” to be special didn’t feel that way . . . in fact, they felt simple and uneventful.
But I also have noticed that I can be numb to them.
And if I am numb to them, as special as they were meant to be, they are always at the mercy of the current condition of my heart.
Yes, certain moments can sometimes indicate where we may have lost heart either in small or big ways.
Moments in general can reveal where we have possibly disconnected from our hearts and have been instead pushing through into the future without any kind of processing them other than, “That was nice. What’s next.“
It seems to be the way of our culture.
“Focus on the now but live for tomorrow.“
That is how years can seem to feel like months when we look back but sitting in traffic feels like an eternity while within that frustrating moment.
God works in moments.
He fulfills our futures, sure.
But He uses moments to get us to the future we seem to crave so badly.
When we aren’t inspired, a simple moment can be a pivotal awakening of inspiration we didn’t know we needed.
Sometimes the moments capture us in ways we didn’t even expect or think we could feel what we feel in them.
God loves to have us caught-up in moments that make impacts on us which shake us and leave imprints on us that mold us.
But those moments still are only as special as we make them.
God is offering these moments constantly to us . . . lavishly.
He is rich with the arrangements of these moments in our lives and is ridiculously generous in their incomparable varieties and countless quantities.
Sadly, we cannot always control what we “make” of them.
Our hope though is this:
If our hearts are closely held to our Father’s, we will be most alive, giving us the ability to capture moments for all they were meant to be for us.
So often we live backwards . . . flipped around . . . to make the moments special instead of keeping our hearts special for those moments.
We take lavished vacations or go on adventurous trips all the while searching for “special moments.”
For me, all the travels and amazing things I’ve had the opportunity to experience and do, one thing was always true.
No matter the moment, if I was not ready for it, it was just another moment in time.
Have you ever wondered how the simplest of moments in life can sometimes be the most life-changing or ones you seem to remember forever?
I know it catches me off guard quite often when the seemingly “big“ moments feel smaller and sometimes the “simpler“ ones I wish could freeze forever in time.
Again, it’s not the moments themselves in life that make them special.
It is our perception of them that does.
