New Year Thoughts

Well, well, well....I made it to 2011.  Time flies doesn't it.  Can't believe that on January 14th  my first baby turned 32 years old.  Time seems to fly but also at the same time to stand still.  Strange.  Wonder how that is to God?  He sees it all from beginning to end at once.  We look back and feel like it was so long ago, but in reality, even 100 years is just a blip on a timeline.  What seems to be long is actually speeding by us.  Look at your child, turn around and they are grown and gone.  Maybe that is why God gives us the blessings of grandchildren.
I like the scriptures that talk about how fleeting life is, what man is in comparison to time.  How about these scriptures:

“Show me, LORD, my life’s end and the number of my days; let me know how fleeting my life is.
You have made my days a mere handbreadth; the span of my years is as nothing before you.
Everyone is but a breath, even those who seem secure."  Psalm 39 4-5

People get so busy they don't realize how time is passing them by, but it says:

Now listen, You who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money."  Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow.  
What is your life?  You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes."  
James 4: 13-15

Life is short, much shorter than most of us realize. I'm at 52 years now and I realize that if I make it another 20 years I'll be really old.  I'm older now than the years I have left.  Scary thought.  I may not make it.  Who is to know?  Lisa surely didn't expect to have a major heart attack at 50.  She is now in the nursing home and maybe there for the rest of her life.

She hopefully doesn't realize it.  Who is to say what she thinks about, what she remembers and for how long she remembers it.  Sometimes I think that at least her worries are over.  She doesn't have to worry about a job, transportation, buying food, cooking, cleaning.  I think she remembers herself as young and skinny.  She doesn't even know that she is aging.  I think that is how it is with her.

Us "normal" people out here worry about so much stuff.  It can be overwhelming sometimes.  But life just keeps on going, doesn't it?  You can't just jump ship.  You are in it and there is only one way out.  Guess I'll just wait and see what the future brings.  That is what most people do, they live moment by moment and deal with whatever happens.  Could be good, could be bad.  Like wedding vows, we take the good with the bad.

People may have fears about the future but if taken moment by moment it can be handled.  The whole situation can change in a moment.  Besides if you have God on your side why worry?  And if you only have so much time, why waste it?