These are the words of someone less jaded than me and someone more energetic (she skydives, mountain climbs, snowboards, etc.). I like the way Tracee writes. I like the way she thinks. I thought like her in less cynical times.
Or is it that I had the same questions of myself and God back when I had the energy to care about working harder at loving God? Maybe that's it. I still care at some level so her writing still resonates with me.
From Tracee Persiko:
"I look around Starbucks and see goals being talked about and goals being pursed. The girl to my right highlights her text books and study materials – her goal…to get some where, and the dream to be someone. To my left are two girls who are in a tutoring session; one older girl tutoring a younger. What is the goal? Is the goal to help? To offer? But as girls do, they are talking about everything except 'math.'
But what of these goals Lord? What of these self plans of ours? What of these 'lights at the end of the tunnel' dreams? To the writer of Ecclesiastes our goals are nothing. Life changes so much. Thoughts bombard us with instant gratification offers. How does one weed through the noise?
I feel like I miss the point when I just stick to my goals. I am trying to think about the work week 2000 years ago. Did people work 80 hour weeks? Did people always try and do what ever it took to get a head? Was money always the end goal? Maybe for some, but that shows how we are never far off from resembling the people of old. Jesus was always about relationship. His goal was always about revealing the Father. His goals were the Father. I have to think that my goals and life should resemble that same thinking. I have to ask myself the questions are my goals to reveal the Father? Are my goals relationship? Do I coast on the coat-tails of others relationships with Christ? Is my brokenness freed up in me to be passed on to others? Do I embrace my weaknesses so that God’s grace is broken bread passed out through me by encouragement or hope? Follow the ways of Jesus and life changes, meaning changes, goals, desires, dreams, perspective, fears and experience change.
I want my life to be mistaken identity for Him. I want people to know something is different about me, or that I have been with Him. My prayer is comes from John 1:3, 'Through him all things are made. Without him nothing is made that has been made.' This verse includes me. I am made through him. All my hopes, dreams, passions, and desires come in to being through my maker. Without him nothing is made. That includes life."
Or is it that I had the same questions of myself and God back when I had the energy to care about working harder at loving God? Maybe that's it. I still care at some level so her writing still resonates with me.
From Tracee Persiko:
"I look around Starbucks and see goals being talked about and goals being pursed. The girl to my right highlights her text books and study materials – her goal…to get some where, and the dream to be someone. To my left are two girls who are in a tutoring session; one older girl tutoring a younger. What is the goal? Is the goal to help? To offer? But as girls do, they are talking about everything except 'math.'
But what of these goals Lord? What of these self plans of ours? What of these 'lights at the end of the tunnel' dreams? To the writer of Ecclesiastes our goals are nothing. Life changes so much. Thoughts bombard us with instant gratification offers. How does one weed through the noise?
I feel like I miss the point when I just stick to my goals. I am trying to think about the work week 2000 years ago. Did people work 80 hour weeks? Did people always try and do what ever it took to get a head? Was money always the end goal? Maybe for some, but that shows how we are never far off from resembling the people of old. Jesus was always about relationship. His goal was always about revealing the Father. His goals were the Father. I have to think that my goals and life should resemble that same thinking. I have to ask myself the questions are my goals to reveal the Father? Are my goals relationship? Do I coast on the coat-tails of others relationships with Christ? Is my brokenness freed up in me to be passed on to others? Do I embrace my weaknesses so that God’s grace is broken bread passed out through me by encouragement or hope? Follow the ways of Jesus and life changes, meaning changes, goals, desires, dreams, perspective, fears and experience change.
I want my life to be mistaken identity for Him. I want people to know something is different about me, or that I have been with Him. My prayer is comes from John 1:3, 'Through him all things are made. Without him nothing is made that has been made.' This verse includes me. I am made through him. All my hopes, dreams, passions, and desires come in to being through my maker. Without him nothing is made. That includes life."
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