So I think I figured out how I want to live my life this weekend as I spent time doing what I love to do...life with people I love more than anything. It was Saturday morning and I was dead tired because I had stayed up late with the kids from my youth group at home at an event on campus this weekend, and gotten up early and my body was feeling tired. It was nothing I hadn't felt before but in this setting something dawned on me. The best way I can begin to put it into words is through a quote from one of my favorite movies, The Guardian. It is about a kid trying to make it through "A" school to become part of the United States Coast Guard. He is doing it because he wants to save lives. Ashton Kutcher's character Jake Fischer (the student) asks "...when you can't save um' all, how do you choose who lives?" Kevin Costner's character Ben Randall (the teacher) answers "It's probably different for everybody Jake. It's kinda simple for me, well, I take the first one I come to or the weakest one in the group, and then I swim as fast and as hard as I can for as long as I can, and the sea takes the rest." I started to think about this concept and thought of this quote on Saturday. It was rolling through my mind all day but I wasn't able to put it all into words for myself until Sunday morning during our church service with the students. The speaker was talking about being heroes for people and taking action, not just sitting around. This is something so elementary and we have all heard it a million times, but that morning I was thinking that my life needs to be full of action, every min. I can't stop because then someone might be lost. So I came up with this statement that morning.
"I will work every day as hard as I can, as long as I can, and love as many as I can, as much as I can, until I lay my head on my pillow every night. It's not about me. It's about them. This does not mean that I don't matter, it just means that my life is bigger than me."
This is it. This will be my life. It doesn't matter how tired I am every day or how much sleep I don't get or how much free time I don't have. It's about going as hard as I can as long as I can and loving as many as I can...and that's it. Another quote from this movie is "...they will all be asking you to be their miracle. At 24 years old you have to find a way to be that miracle."
At 21 years old, I will find a way to be their miracle.
Peace and Love.
1 Peter 4:8 "Above all love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins."
