Often times when I am driving, whether out on the highway or driving here in Steinbach, I continually observe people as they are driving or walking etc. I find myself looking at them and asking myself "What drives them?" "What do they see as meaningful or purposeful in life?" So often I imagine us all as sheep, wandering around, nowhere to go, (or more likely anywhere that we can go to or even do). There are a million things we can do but we (or me) usually choose the things that either benefit us. It is very difficult to break the habit of what we always have done. I could substitute the word sin for habit, and in some cases it may apply. It is just so much easier to do what I have always do then to venture out and do something totally different....especially something that is right.
It seems that when I blog I love to post a video to go along with it. Highway 20 Ride is a Zach Brown Band song that talks about a break up of husband and wife early in their marriage and the father had to drive every other weekend to visit his son down Highway 20. He wishes it did not have to be that way...to make the drive...but there was no other way to work it out. So he drives......
I guess there are things in our lives that we have no choice ...but to do some things, in order to achieve what is important to us ... but to make that drive, or to do those things that we need to in order to get or maintain that something that has become so dear to us. In a marriage, there are times we "give in" on an issue because we want to either keep the relationship in good standing or simply don't want to rock the boat. There are some issues that really don't matter or are not worth rocking the boat on .... so we compromise, in order to keep things "happy" in the marriage. It is not just in our marriage that we "give in" in order to keep the things we hold dear...it can apply to anything and all things that we hold in high regard and would not give up for anything. Some of them are irrelevant and some of them are meaningful...
It is always easy to judge someone elses irrelevant as meaningful and vice versa until we really look deeply at our own....and that is where I am now.
I heard a quote the other day which I remember hearing about 20 years ago about judging others.....The quote goes "For every finger you point at someone else, there are two fingers pointing back at you".
I guess the reason I put videos in my blog is I think that when my time comes and I am standing before God, my life will be there on video. The good the bad and the ugly....hoping that in the end in spite of all I have done and said that He will say...well done good and faithful servant.
