First Days In Buffalo

Revive once more my beloved blog...

Happily sitting in the Elmwood Avenue Starbucks and looking forward to my time in Buffalo. This is probably one of my favorite Starbucks. Some homeless guys hang out here; just talk to one of them for a spell. He saw my Bible and wanted me to pray that he finds a job. He seems as if he has a few screws loose in his head but then again, so do I. His name is Wayne. Pray for Wayne. Pray that he would find a job AND that God might tighten a few of his screws...
It’s nice to imagine what might be in store here and all the possibilities. I feel like I start this new season of my life with a more keen perspective on how my life should be lived and the people I should surround myself with. I am excited to grow in my faith and in my love for God. All of this brings thoughts to my mind and those thoughts are not without fear. I AM afraid of certain things. One of my biggest fears is that my life is meaningless. I know this isn’t true of my whole life but it’s easy for me to doubt in the day-to-day that life on a particular day is meaningless, that the things I am doing aren’t making a difference. I was reminded lately that how far this really is from being the truth; quite the opposite, in fact. You see, the seeds I show every day bear fruit and that fruit yields more seeds which yield more fruit, and so on all the way into eternity.

…Into eternity…

Did you catch that word? Eternity. Every day is filled with eternity. Read that again. SO HOW ON EARTH COULD LIFE BE MEANINGLESS? HOW ON EARTH COULD A DAY BE MEANINGLESS IF EVERY SINGLE DAY IS FILLED WITH ETERNITY? It’s impossible. It’s insane. It makes absolute zero sense.

SO. Every day is full of meaning. And it IS that way because God MADE it that way. He jammed every single day plum-full of meaning, so much so that we are literally SWIMMING in it whether we realize it or not.

I guess that’s the point of this post and a fitting thought to carry with me as I enter into my days in Buffalo. Let me swim and swim and SWIM in plum-full days...through trials and joys and the mixture of the two...swimming into eternity. Every day is filled. FILLED.