The RevGalBlogPals have an annual “Big Event” (B.E.) and next year it is a cruise in February. (The announcement is here…) I’ve never been able to make one of the B.E.s because of school. Now that that particular excuse is blown out of the water, I just have to face my propensity to seasickness. (Money? Schmoney…) I’m hoping that THIS time, I can make it.
This brought to mind a conversation I had earlier today. Someone asked me, “What are you looking forward to?” I responded with a smorgasboard of life events, people, and places… all things that I know I will be on my calendar for the next several months.
But that wasn’t really the question. They wanted to know more than calendar dates and people. They wanted to find out what drives my outlook on life. And I had to tell them that it was not just things, and places, and people, and events.
The actual motivation for my life is beyond all of those. It transcends the visual and floats in the mystical, out of the past and future and in a different plane altogether. It holds my hopes up high…
The words of that old (VERY old) Amy Grant song came to mind…
I`ve got my hope set high
That`s why I came tonight
I need to see the truth
I need to see the light
And I can do my best
And pray to the Father
But the one thing I ought to know by now
When it all comes down
When it all comes down
If there`s anything good that happens in life
It`s from Jesus
Whether or not I make the boat, I have confidence that there’s light ahead. When it all comes down…
An Unfinished Symphony 
I don’t think Heart in Motion is “Very Old” Amy Grant. I bought it when it was released on CD, so that puts it in the “older, but not that old” category. “Straight Ahead” “Amy Grant” “Age to Age”–very old. I still have my LPs of those. Even that oh-so-controversial “Unguarded” (also on LP) is older than Heart in Motion. I’m just saying… 🙂
I like what you have to say, here. Even as we go through the daily-ness of life, there is this “something” that makes every moment matter.
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