God's gift

I really should have posted the below post from Ann Voskamp’s blog on my fridge to read this last weekend.  I had a weekend of mostly moments that I wish went faster than they did.  Those moments that merge into a full day and you lie in bed at the end of it and wonder what you did right as a mom, as a Christian, as a human being.  Saturday, I felt I failed.

-“Be present – because the present is just that – a present. A gift. No one has to carpe diem, seize the day, of everyday chromos ( meaning quantitative) time — we can all grind our teeth through as many of the difficult moments we want – and miss who knows how much of our life? How do you know which moments are the kairos (meaning quality) moments to seize — and the chronos ones to merely survive?

Maybe the ones you aren’t seizing are the ones that might change you?

What if your present was giving you more gifts than you ever imagined?

But maybe it isn’t so much about as carpe diem – seize the day.

Maybe it’s about this: God uses the day to seize us. God carpe diems.

God seizes the days: God seizes time and uses it as an instrument to transform. God seizes every moment to sculpt souls and shape lives and transform ashes into glory. What if isn’t so much about seizing kairos moments and surviving chronos moments — but seeing all as Christ-filled moments? That God seizes the moment to make me more like Christ and what if I seized more of the moments, because there is something of my Savior in them?”

Comments

[Ashley]

Thanks for sharing that blog. Was reading past blogs, definitely gives a different perspective on things. Love ya bunches.