Good morning.
When most of you are reading this I will be on route to New York to minister. I will be there for a week and am hoping to keep the devotionals coming each day if I miss one you now know why?
John 4: 35 (NKJV)
Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest!
Carpe Vitam Living.
Know, enjoy and love what you have while you have it, don’t wait to appreciate it when it is gone!
We ended yesterday on the thought of relationships, relationships are a gift in your life always make sure you are appreciating or getting the most out of each of them.
The fact is as we said yesterday, not everyone that is in your life now will be there as they are now in a few years time, this is so worth thinking about. I hope that thought does not cause fear but rather motivation which in turn will deliver you from the chance of any regrets “later on”.
Parents / Grandparents – Make the most of every stage of your children’s life and development when they are through certain stages they are so often done with them and those stages are never repeated, like flowers in a field take time to smell the daily scent of who they are and where they are at now in this thing called life. Remember their lives are not like DVD players, so don’t live with your finger on fast forward you will miss stuff, don’t live as if there is a rewind and you will be able to see it all another time when you’re not so busy, you won’t, keep your finger on play and enjoy “real time” life playing out before you.
Kids (however old you are) – However many parents you have left and no matter what age they are, make the choice to live in such a way that you “carpe” the juice out of those relationships, because the sad heritage for kids is that we all say goodbye to our parents one day and that is the right way round (hopefully there is assurance of reuniting with them in the next leg of eternity). Again it’s not about living with fear or regret but purposing in our hearts to get the most out of these relationships not in four months time but now!
As many of you know a couple of years my mum died of cancer it was so fast, she went into a hospital with back pain and four weeks later died in a hospice. I Loved my mum she was a great mum and an inspiration and mentor to my faith in God. I remember sitting in that hospice day and night in those last few days trying to get as many moments as I could with her and from her, the reality is the moments were always there for many years previous, it was not that I did not want them I was busy, thinking back maybe too busy? Maybe if I had that chance again I would be less busy. Make that phone call, arrange that visit, forgive, love there worth it!
Also with friends, we all like to think that the friends who are close in our life now will always be there in that same way, truth is not many will be, marriage, Great job offers and many other things come to put distant between close friendships, some stay close for ever but not all. Again don’t live in the fear of people moving on because that is natural some move out of your life to some degree or another to make room for others to move in. Live to love, enjoy and harvest the best of who is in your world now!
Thank God for emails and mobile phones that even those who move are never that far.
Children, parents, family and friends they are all gifts from God for you, let’s all be inspired to get the most out of all these gifts while they are still in our possession, busy is good the hand of the diligent rules, but let’s make sure a part of our busy is special people.
Bless ya
Have a great day, I will soon be in I am in America and am gonna “Carpe Burger”
Andy
A devotional by Pastor Andy Elmes to inspire you with a godly thought to start your day well. God’s word is indeed the breakfast of champions.
Great Big Life
Empowering People
Andy Elmes
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