it's the little things
so i find that in life it's not the major moments, but the minor moments, that mean the most.
someone saving you a seat at the lunch table, coloring you a picture, waving in passing. those are things that make your day, and to contrast can break your day. someone not waving or even seeing you when you pass, forgetting your birthday, saying something negative- those things can sting.
it's odd to say that major things don't effect me as deeply but dare i leap to say that we all feel that way. i mean the speaker in chapel today was talking about the aids pandemic and stalins words about a million deaths being a statistic but one a tragedy. is it not true? tsunami, katrina, 9/11 we feel for those people but our parent dies and the world literally ceases to turn. and i'm NOT saying this is bad, heaven's no, i'm not trying to down play the death of a parent in the least. what i'm saying is that sometimes i feel like our brains can't take in large moments and so it just can't have the full effect on us. i mean if we could comprehend the death of millions of people our spirits would be continually broken. at the same time sometimes i feel like i can't fully feel the effects of huge happy moments either. i can't speak for getting married or having children, but things like me being here at cedarville, the friends i have, i feel like i dont even comprehend the greatness of such things, adn then you talk about understanding God and the sacrifice Jesus made for us and you just go- yeah right, i can't even begin to get that.
i think it's a gift God gives us to not be able to comprehend the big stuff adn to appreciate the small stuff. it's like taste buds and sunsets, He didn't have to give us those things but He did. just think, if we COULD understand the depths of great joy adn great tragedy then the minor things wouldn't excite or upset us at all...is it not better to get upset when you trip on the sidewalk only to be cheered up by a colorful bandaid rather than constantly being distraught over aids, natural disasters, crime rates, and having to wait for possibly long periods of time before true happiness reaches you?
well...think what you like but i'm very thankful to be thrilled over stickers-changedfish
so i find that in life it's not the major moments, but the minor moments, that mean the most.
someone saving you a seat at the lunch table, coloring you a picture, waving in passing. those are things that make your day, and to contrast can break your day. someone not waving or even seeing you when you pass, forgetting your birthday, saying something negative- those things can sting.
it's odd to say that major things don't effect me as deeply but dare i leap to say that we all feel that way. i mean the speaker in chapel today was talking about the aids pandemic and stalins words about a million deaths being a statistic but one a tragedy. is it not true? tsunami, katrina, 9/11 we feel for those people but our parent dies and the world literally ceases to turn. and i'm NOT saying this is bad, heaven's no, i'm not trying to down play the death of a parent in the least. what i'm saying is that sometimes i feel like our brains can't take in large moments and so it just can't have the full effect on us. i mean if we could comprehend the death of millions of people our spirits would be continually broken. at the same time sometimes i feel like i can't fully feel the effects of huge happy moments either. i can't speak for getting married or having children, but things like me being here at cedarville, the friends i have, i feel like i dont even comprehend the greatness of such things, adn then you talk about understanding God and the sacrifice Jesus made for us and you just go- yeah right, i can't even begin to get that.
i think it's a gift God gives us to not be able to comprehend the big stuff adn to appreciate the small stuff. it's like taste buds and sunsets, He didn't have to give us those things but He did. just think, if we COULD understand the depths of great joy adn great tragedy then the minor things wouldn't excite or upset us at all...is it not better to get upset when you trip on the sidewalk only to be cheered up by a colorful bandaid rather than constantly being distraught over aids, natural disasters, crime rates, and having to wait for possibly long periods of time before true happiness reaches you?
well...think what you like but i'm very thankful to be thrilled over stickers-changedfish
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