I Will Be Am
I was reading in my journal and found an old entry from last December I thought I'd share:
Acts 3: "Silver and gold I don't have. But what I have I give to you. In the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk."
In the song "Beautiful Day" by U2, the bridge says (I think), "What you don't have, you don't need it now."
It's an interesting thought to me that we already have everything we need. I mean, sure, we may need other things in the future, but it will only be because of anything we have now that we will be able to get it. It will be from the resources and motivation we already possess that we will get or become anything more.
So, in a way, we are the seeds of our own destiny.
I realized today that the reason I get worried or concerned about my life and where it's going is because I haven't accepted that I'm living it now.
I've had no trouble believing I have been developing in character and in spirit and as a human, but as far as fulfilling any role in society or finding a "calling"... those are things that always seem to have qualities of, "will be" or "someday" or even "about to be".
It's like I'm waiting for a door to just pop open in the middle of my path and I'll be like, "Oh, okay. Time for life to start."
Where will I go if I decide that today I am the man I've dreamt, hoped and assumed I would become?
6 Comments:
Hey Shad!
There's a line in the movie "A Lot Like Love" that goes something like this, "this is you life now, it doesn't wait for you to get back on your feet." Learning to live in the present, being confident of things falling into place is so key to true contentment. So keep working through it, I do everyday...
there's an old Beattles song that has a line in it, "Life is what happens while you're making your plans." Yes, Today IS life...we're all learning to "Live in the moment."
God is awesome.
:)
Berlin. you would go to Berlin.
it just seems right.
good stuff and right on. someone really smart i know once said,
"tomorrow is forged in today."
(ok. it was me.)
turn that "if" into "today."
wait.
did you blog this from your cell phone?
;)
i would hope the man you dreamt you are is not a man who can fly. i would hate for you to jump off a building only to discover you are not the man you dreamt you were.
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