The Forty Post

Tomorrow I'll be forty. Don't worry, I'm not going to wax nostalgic. I know it's a milestone but I just can't seem to take it seriously. I think the popular term is "underwhelmed". On her blog, Jonna talked about what she learned this summer, but my brain doesn't work like that. Ideas rarely jump right up and say," Hey, think about this". Jonna learned these things as they happened but I have to look back at all the events that have taken place, put it all together and then I can see how everything fits together. So, yeah, that means most of the time i'm pretty clueless until I get to the point that I put it all together. Much to Jonnas consternation. Sorry honey, that's just how I think. I think that the biggest thing I've found out in forty years, and you have to listen because I'm old now, is that life is made up of only one big thing and then a few smaller things. It's realizing that God is the main source of everything and after that it's smaller things. If you make something else your big thing then the other smaller things will suffer. Even if you're still making God your big thing. In Katinas blog she talked about Eccliastes and how all of our efforts are like chasing the wind. So I'm thinking that anything we make a big thing is just chasing the wind or meaningless or folly.
Think about it. Why is a small life lived happily not one of our desires? Why must life be supersized and noticable from a distance before we can be considered successful? Because we are imperfect, selfish humans. Left to our own devices we will make ourselves our one big thing and seek out what makes us feel good. Hey, we ate the apple and guess what? We can't tell the difference between good and evil. Not without Gods guidance.
What about God saying He has a plan for us? Shouldn't we make that our big thing? I've struggled with this one a lot and I think I've stumbled upon an idea that makes a lot of sense. What if I stop jumping at every chance to do something big for God because this might be his plan for me? How about I just go about my business doing my few small things well and be open for when God wants to use us? I believe the way we handle little things is how God tells if we're ready for big things. (Matthew 25:15-30)
So, forty years, big thing, little things, small life lived well.
Until next time This is Life
Travis

Well here goes

Yeah, this is life. Where you're at, what you're doing, what you do to survive. Any plan to change those things starts now. Or whenever you get around to it. So this is probably going to be mostly about life. As underwhelming as it is sometimes. But, along the way you'll read about the highlights of my life. One of the two greatest of those being my wife, Her Most Royal Highness The Queen Jonna Of Georgetown Indyucky. You'll read about the daring do of my darling daughter Katie. She's the other highlight. And I shall recount to the best of my ability the escapades of the most intelligent Black and Tan Coon-hound I have ever met, Obadiah Boudreax Coonhound. Pictures will follow when I figure out how. Shouldn't be long, I just figured out how to link.So I'm off to experiment with my blog. Pray I don't break anything. Later.
Travis