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.... :)
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
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
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