HCLM BLOG

as I drove in to work this morning the sunrise was pretty sweet. bans of pink and orange and blue.

I got out of bed, as I do most mornings, just before 6a. As I did I thought, I don’t know how many more days in a row I can get up before 7. Just let me sleep ’til 7. I’ve found that I’m not eating quite as well lately as I usually do. Before I eat a snack that I usually wouldn’t I’m saying something like, “I’m pushing myself in lots of places and just not going to push myself here.” So you get the picture, I’ve been feeling a little bit sorry for myself lately.

That’s why the view of the sunrise was nice this morning. I had put Pandora on a Shane and Shane station that was singing a song about the “take my yoke upon you, for my burden is light” verse as I looked through our few high rises to see the sun coming up so pretty. It reminded me about reality: There is a steady, beautiful world coming. One day the sun will roll around to our side of the globe for the last time, everything that makes life hard will be put away and the pieces of my life that are so satisfying will explode to fill up my whole existence.

Inside that truth there is another that clicked into my brain during this morning’s drive. I am glimpsing that world all the time. Not just that great sunrise. At about 10:30 this morning Wes burst into the shop announcing, “Dad, we made you lunch!” and Ellie carried it over to me saying “lunch” as best she can. Somewhere, between me and those kids, is an emotion that is real and tied to a relationship that will endure even into that new world. Plus, I am realizing that the fun parts of work are connecting to something in me that is real and will endure. I was made to create and invest and apply my skills. When I step back for a minute I realize, God is leading toward becoming a real person. One that will endure into that new world. Most of the time it is satisfying. It’s then that I realize, my life is not burdensome–I just make it that way sometimes…