Don't Miss the Now

As I was driving to work early in the morning, it was still dark out. I noticed something reflecting on the side of the road up ahead, and it looked like it was flickering. I kept looking at it, trying to figure out if it was an animal or what. Suddenly I realized there was a huge branch on the road right in front of me and I had to swerve to miss it. Thankfully, it was an empty road and there were no cars coming the other way.

How many times do I miss what's right in front of me because I'm looking ahead? I like the way Jim Elliot put it: "Wherever you are - be all there." Most of the time I have many different projects going on, big and small, and I also work full-time. It's easy to be thinking about the next thing I need to take care of instead of enjoying the moment I'm in. It is important to be ready and prepared. Actually, I just did a little write-up on being prepared for the end of life.

You can check it out at:

http://sarahshares.com/EndofLifeCareandDecisions.html

That being said, don't miss what is going on right now!

Two big things ahead for me right now are getting ready to go to Haiti next week for a short-term mission trip and getting ready to go over the first edits on a children's book I'm really excited about (more on that later:). Right now, though, right at this moment, I'm off from work and my amazing husband, Mike, will be home shortly. I'm going to leave tomorrow for tomorrow and get some popcorn and a movie ready so we can enjoy a night in! 

Oh, by the way, the thing I saw reflecting was simply a reflector on a telephone pole with some branches waving back and forth in front of it. 

~ Sarah