How many days unitl....

So, listening to the radio earlier this week I heard a countdown to all of the holidays that are coming. 

24 days until Halloween

52 day until Thanksgiving

79 days until Christmas

Then they started trying to figure out how many days until they retire.  I get the humor in this and I get the reality in what is coming, but I hate living with the ______ days until _______.

What happens when we live in the moment of today and not in the mentality of it “will be better when,”  or “I can’t wait until?”  What if today was a gift?  When we are always focused on other things we miss what is right before our very eyes.

So, this week let’s focus on the moments:

•   Look at the amazing sunrises and sunsets.  Stop and see the beauty.

•   Go give your kids an extra kiss at bedtime. 

•   Enjoy a family dinner or breakfast. 

•   Enjoy the quiet, whenever it comes in your house, and gift thanks.

•   Call your extended family this week.  They love you.

•   Call an old friend this week.  They miss you.

•   Smile at a stranger.

 

This week let’s focus on the present moments and see God’s wonderful creation with joy.

Philippians 2 (Imitating Christ’s Humility)

¹ Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, ² then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. ³ Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, ⁴ not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. ⁵ In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: ⁶ Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; ⁷ rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. ⁸ And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross! ⁹ Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, ¹⁰  that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, ¹¹ and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.