The Highlander

  Well, I passed another birthday this weekend.  Funny, I feel the same as I did a week ago, but the calendar says I am one year older.  Of course, calendars don’t dictate how you feel on a certain day, they just inform you of what day it is.  How you feel, live, and experience life on that day, has a lot to do with you.  You can “live!”, or you can just “exist”.

The older I get, the more I want to live, really live, each day.  I want to enjoy every moment that Papa gives me.  I am realizing that every second is a gift and while each gift is given, I want to receive it and milk it for all it is worth.  Sure, I want to accomplish things that make a difference in somebody’s world while I am here, but I am also learning how relish the little things that nobody else sees.  Sometimes, God shows Himself to me in those “hidden moments” more than in the wide open ones.

One thing that He has driven home for me in the last few years, is that the only thing that REALLY matters, is love.  Nothing more, nothing less.  My life will be judged by how well I loved.  Because how well I lived, will be determined by how well I loved.  Everything the Bible speaks of is summed up (as Jesus said), by how well I loved Father, and how well I loved others.  So, every opportunity I get each day to express love for Him and to others, I need to seize it.  I want my life to be invested, not spent.  The only way that will happen is by living a life of love.

In five minutes, I get a chance to love in word and deed.  My wife will come out here, and I will hug her, and tell her how special she is and how very much I love her.  In an hour, I will be out among people and will be looking for the opportunities that Papa will give me to show love to someone else.  It may be in a kind or encouraging word.  It could be in an act of service that is needed, or just to sit still and listen to someones  heart.  Father has more “love adventures” planned for me each day than I can shake a stick at.  I just need to be looking for them as I am going along.

So, my prayer this day is not, “Father use me to do great things”, or “make me a great man”.  Neither is it, “Bless me, bless me, bless me”.  Nope.  It is, “Father fill me with Your life and let me walk in love towards You and all that You bring my way.”  I am sure that He will answer that prayer, and I am also sure that I will have lived life to its fullest if I do those things.  Heck, love sort of makes life worth livin’!

The Highlander

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