Skip to main content

Perspective

It's all how you look at things, huh?  Glass half empty or half full?  Partly sunny or partly cloudy?  Yankees or anyone else? ;)

Well, I had an interesting learning moment in the most unusual of moments this weekend.  The movie "Cool Runnings" was playing on cable and my sister and I started giggling and then had to watch it!  It's been years since I've watched it, although I had forgotten how many one-liners we repeat from it!  "I am feeling very Olympic today!" :)

If you've never seen it, it is about the Jamaican bobsled team and that struggles they went through to make a name for themselves.  They made it past the qualifying run and, during a run, their bobsled crashes.  If they are touched by any paramedics, etc., they are automatically disqualified.  Rather than being disqualified, they picked up the bobsled (amazing in itself!) and walked it across the finish line.

There is where inspiration hit me.  Since the games were in Canada, the finish line also included the words in French.  So it read "Finish/Arrivee".  My sister laughed at me and said it's fun to see a thought formulate in my head.... :)

Philippians 3:12-14

12 Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. 13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

Arrivee literally translated from French to English means destination or finishing line. 

So, since it's all in perspective......a "finish line" can also be the "destination" or "arrival line".  We have daily things that we finish....meals, the day....we finish school, college, goals....but, for what?  There's still more living to do after you finish, right?  So it could be said that when we "finish" something, we are really just entering into the next thing to accomplish.  Before that thought exhausts you, remember the Lord's grace is so good and His love so amazing, that He is helping you through each hurdle, each goal, each meal, even.

So, back to the finish line.  We we cross the ultimate "finish line" are we really finished?  No!  We will continue to live!  Rather than finishing, aren't we arriving?!  So we continue to press on like Paul to obtain the ultimate prize----eternal life with our Savior!

Now, THIS is a race I'm willing to run!  I can't wait until I ARRIVE at my DESTINATION!

God bless you in your race this week,

Vickie

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Unemployed - Part One

September has always been a great month, largely because our family celebrates six birthdays in one week! Add to that it's the beginning of Fall on either my brother's birthday or mine. September is a great month. This year. 2023? It was a rough one. Besides additional physical struggles for my sister, September 8th I quit my job. Many of you know a bit about the why, but I'm going to go a little more in depth here - partly so I can be transparent and partly because it is healing for me. I started this latest job with a renowned attorney in the Rockford/Loves Park/Byron area in April, leaving a job behind where the environment was "frosty" and the attorney I worked with swore like a sailor. Many are able to get past that, but I cringe every time I hear swearing and let me tell you, I cringed all day long every day. There were other major issues, but this isn't about that job. From day one with this new attorney, I realized it may have been a mistake to come he...
Post a Comment
Read more

Unemployed - Part Two

In my last post I mentioned this would be the "rest of the story". I realized a bit ago that this actually is just the middle of the story as God hasn't shown me the "rest" yet. Again, I'm not going to go through and edit this. Again, I'm just being real, typos and all. Where we left off, I'd left my job and now you understand why more fully. It was my mental health or working for her. I chose health. A few weeks before I left, I'd heard a song by my current favorite band, Unspoken. If you know me well, you'll know that I latch onto one specific band or artist and stick with them on a constant loop of their songs until another band sneaks in. I've been listening to Unspoken on that loop for about six months now. Coincidence? Nah. I worked for her for five months. One month prior the Lord started infiltrating my head with life-giving music. He knew.  One song, Sleep in the Storm, hit me hard a few weeks ago. It is the telling of the story ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Choose Love or Divorce?

I've said it before, but I'll repeat it again.  The saddest words I have to type on a regular basis working for an attorney are: "The bonds of matrimony existing between Petitioner and Respondent are hereby dissolved."  Man, I hate those words.  They tug at my heart each time I'm forced to type them. By the time a party ends up in our office, almost all of them have no desire, not an ounce of try left in them.  Many are convinced they are no longer in love.  Most wouldn't consider reconciliation if you paid them.  Some come in with a new significant other, ready to get the formalities out of the way so they can move on with the new person in their life that completes them. Please don't read this as an affront to all that have been divorced.  I'm not naive enough to believe that all marriages can be salvaged.  There are physical reasons, emotional reasons, etc., that just cannot be overlooked sometimes.  And, sometimes, it's simply the oth...
3 comments
Read more