Get your head in the game!

I know I've slacked off.  That my posts have dwindled.  I'm pretty sure you are all surviving right nicely without my words.  But I'm missing it - the sharing of meaningful thoughts.  Well mostly I'm missing the having of meaningful thoughts.  They are what have dwindled.  Because when life gets hustly and bustly, all things full of meaning seem to get overlapped or overlooked or overtaken amidst all things full of nothing.

How does that happen - before I even notice what's going on, I'm yelling at The Hunk about all the stuff he won't let me buy for the perfect new home God has wrapped up and sealed for me with a big, red front door?  All I can think about are sofas and dishes and light fixtures and bath mats.

Last night it hit me - if Jesus returns in a few months to find me sitting in my perfectly [albeit thriftily] decorated home, He'll take me with Him.  But the house full of stuff will be left, abandoned - because it is not valuable enough to decorate heaven.  Red door and all will be forgotten and no one will care a smidge about a darn piece of it.

But the souls who enter through that door and possibly leave changed, they ARE valuable enough to decorate heaven.

And then I gave myself a good talking to that I firmly wrapped up with, "Get your head in the game, Purvis [which is actually my maiden name but is what came out, for whatever reason]!"

So THIS Tuesday we are refocusing - a tiny decision that [with the help of the Holy Spirit] will bring about big change.  Let's hope so, anyway, because I am not loving this most recent version of myself.