Loving others now and forever more

It is the overlooked, subtle things that are the most significant things in a persons life.

That cause the greatest change. Change in the world. Change in beliefs. Change in me. Change in you.

Something right in front of our faces that are clear and understandable, yet ever evasive. And because of their significance, it should be the things we see most clearly and simultaneously the things we give ourselves completely to...but we don't do we? Because.. like I said, they are subtle and we overlook them...take them for granted...

Significance is defined as something meaningful...or momentous...derived from the word 'moment' which implies a single instance...

Significance is found moment by moment...

It is something meaningful that happens in single instances. Here and then gone.

THIS TRUTH IS BEGINNING TO BRING ME GREAT SORROW.. MOSTLY BECAUSE NOBODY ELSE SEEMS TO CARE... AND IF YOU REALLY CARED, IT SHOULD GRIEVE YOU TO THE POINT OF BEING BROKEN.

The truth that it is the OVERLOOKED and IGNORED things that are most important...the most meaningful.The ONLY things that really matter.

The single unit of time that is called 'the second' that just passed out of your life FOREVER and all of his kind that rush in and out of your life, even as you read these words...

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All those seconds lost... casualties of a mediocre life. A life that you have settled into.. seconds you will never get back...that can never be replaced..never.

Don't you see it now? EVERY second was created to be FULL of significance... FULL of meaning..

EVERY second. Not SOME, but EVERY second that God allows to tick holds promise of endless significance.. endless meaning.. but it is here and gone in an instant.

Which brings me to my ultimate point. To the ultimate truth of what I see. The truth that crushes me, so that my composure is nearly impossible to sustain..

Listen closely.

Don't miss this because the application of this truth will result in eternal joy, but ignoring the truth will have eternal consequences..

Ready?

Here it is:

Every second is IMPOSSIBLY MEANINGFUL
because
Every second IS full of ENDLESS, BEAUTIFUL, GLORIOUS, PRICELESS, UN-REPLACEABLE, UNIQUE, ETERNAL, LOVELY, WONDERFUL and yet constantly OVERLOOKED and IGNORED things...

And what are those things? Yet you already know, don't you? They are not things at all...

They are linked. One is clearly greater, yet can not be removed from the second when it pertains to us...

God.

People.

Yet, though God is without a doubt, the greatest of all priorities, I will only speak on the secondary things.. that is, people.

The people around us. The person with hurt in their eyes. The person that quietly draws a smile on their face, while shadowing the tears til you are out of sight. But you wouldn't know that would you? because like I said... It is the overlooked and ignored things that are most important. So we run off to the things that will one day be destroyed by fire, leaving behind the things that hold us together like glue.. the things that we will know fully when we enter into our glory. The things that God Himself said through His actions, 'Even the life of my own Son is not worth more to me than spending forever with you'

If God saw these 'things' as worth far more than the life of His Son, how should we view them?

Who is hurting? Who needs you RIGHT NOW? Not later... but NOW. Is it weird for you? Is it awkward? Are you too busy right now? Do you have good reasons why you can't be there for them? Is it too much to listen to them? Is it too much to live, if only for a second, as if you truly believed they were more important than fading junk we hold so tightly to our chests?

What if, as you read this, something terrible was happening? What if they were already gone before you finished this sentence?

What if your next call delivered the news of someones unexpected death?

Do you think they know, without a shadow of a doubt that your love for them couldn't be contained in this universe because it stretches out forever?

I don't know about you, but I think it's time for a shifting in our values...Because SOMEONE that you know needs you right now..I can guarantee you. I can promise you. Are you there for them? Why not?



Just some more random thoughts...