Easy to Get Distracted from What Matters Most

I was driving one day and I had a passenger with me. We were on our way some place, and I mad this observational comment, “I need to get my truck washed.  I have a lot of bug splatters on my windshield.” Nothing wrong with that statement. But the comment in response was “How like life is it, that we focus on the splatters and not the sun rise ahead”.

What a huge philosophical observation. How many times have you been talking to someone and they tell you about the problem they had with this or that. I’m not trying to minimize anyone’s challenges they’ve faced but I remember a conversation I had many years ago where I was telling (ok, complaining), about something to someone and shortly thereafter in the conversation they told me about a close family member who was facing a life ending situation. I remember feeling ashamed that I was so anxious to share my complaining that I made the person wait to reach out for support from the person they were talking to… which was me.

Unless you are very young (or extremely blessed), we have all lost family members that we’ve loved. At first, the ache is almost too much to bear. In my experience, it gets better over time. I say that but there are times where I think about my parents a lot, who I lost already.

“For it is God who worketh in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure. Do all things without murmurings and questionings: that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye are seen as lights in the world,” - Philippians 2:13-15

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, self-control; against such there is no law.” - Galatians 5:22-23

Anyway, it seems far too quickly that we are back to focusing on the little inconveniences that pop up in our life. The bugs on the windshield distracting us from the beauty and magnificence of the sun rise.