Hopes and dreams are wonderful things - they inspire and give vision for the future.
But to live only for future hopes and dreams runs the risk of living with bits of our present lives 'on hold' while we wait for whatever it is that we dream about............
The risk is that we miss everything that the present offers for the sake of the future we hope might be. Living this way can leave us hearing the promise of 'life in all it's fullness' (John 10:10), frustratedly asking 'is this it?' because we're living a half-life -
half committed to the present, half waiting for something else.....
To truly live out life in all it's fullness surely means to live fully rooted in the here and now, making the most of every minute of every day - inspired rather than distracted - by the possibilities the future holds.....
Live fully now with an eye on the there n then!
ReplyDeleteAs Jim Elliott said, wherever you are be wholly there
Keep on doing the stuff
Smiles to you this Eastertime
Johnny
you read my mind! x
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