I've taken a pretty extensive break from blogging because our Family was in the middle of a pretty major move. In the midst of the move, I was sick for about a month and during that same week we had our Youth Winter Camp! Let's just say February and March have been NUTS!!!
I've come out of this time with a very big lesson that I've learned in the past but I guess I just keep needing to be reminded of it. Over the past year, my wife and I have been in the process of selling our home. This was not just any home to us, this was the home that my wife grew up in (we purchased it from her parents). It was at this home that we had our first kiss, I proposed to her in this home, and we had our first child at this home. This is to not even mention all the memories her family has from the 20 years previous to us owning it!
But I was so consumed with just trying to move on. With the way the market is, it took us quite a bit of time to actually close, and with MUCH frustration at that! But the whole time I just kept thinking about the future: our new house, the mission Jesus was going to send us there, etc. I was so focused on the next step and season of our lives that I completely ignored the greatness of what we currently had.
The final night we had the home, I did the final pieces of cleaning up and all of a sudden it hit me. All of a sudden all that time felt like a waste, and it brought me to tears. I missed out on some amazing opportunities because I didn't realize the present was just as significant as the future! I wanted that next step SO Bad, but it cause to me completely neglect and be thankful for what I had.
Don't take the present for granted. It's all you got. The next season will come in God's timing, so take a look around where you are now and be thankful. Live it to the max, enjoy the ride, and allow God to do in and through you NOW what He wants. He's got it covered, so let Him worry about the next step.
