This morning I dropped an earring. - Not just any earring, but one of my favorite earrings. The kind that you can wear most any day with any outfit and feel nice. Well, it fell and it clanked and I gasped only to hear it clank again. Somehow my most treasured earring managed to fall under my chest of drawers and through the tiny slot that leads into the heater vent.
It is not irretrievable, but let's say that it will take an effort - not just on my part, but I am going to need some help from my wonderful hubby to move furniture, focus with a flashlight and reach down into the bowels of the heating vent of this old house in order to retrieve it.
It is at times like this that you start to evaluate - is it really worth it? Is this particular earring really worth all of that trouble? I will tell you that to me it is. Not only is it very useful and not only does somedays help make getting my day started easier, but it is gold. - solid gold and a gift from my precious husband too.
Of course that is not the end of my post. Something more profound happened in that split second of the slip, clink ,clank of the fallen earring. A quiet reminder of my own fallen nature and the precious part of my life that has been slipping through my hands most lately.
"Is your precious time with me worth some extra trouble ?"
" How badly do you really want THAT?"
Life has been moving at high speed here lately. I have been functioning pretty well, getting in a quiet time most everyday, but swift and efficient work is not always the most satisfying. Swift and efficient does not pair well with creativity: creativity which in God's hands is a re-creating of the me in this life.
God has been prompting me and I have been waving "hi" and running by.
So it is my belief that God has used this little mishap to call my attention to a much greater miscalculation - that of my own time and my own focus. I do believe that it is time for me to move some things around and get down on my knees again. It is time to search for that most precious item in any of our lives. It is time to fight the battle of my sense of urgency to win the war of relationship - precious as gold!
Sometimes we realize that life is dragging us by, but we can't seem to slow ourselves down without a helping hand reaching out and asking us simply 'where in the world are you going?'
So I want to encourage you, which encourages me too; allow others to help you "move things around". Ask Christ for a light to shine on your life. So that none of us miss out on that sweet and precious gift that cannot be replaced!
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Luke 12:34
