What Is This Thing Called Life?

So teach us to consider our mortality,
so that we might live wisely.

Psalm 90:12

I downloaded the Ancestry app to see who I could find that might be related in some way, shape or form.  The more I dug into my family tree...I realized that my family flower is the goldenrod, the family gem is granite, and the family tree was (and is) full of nuts! 

I remember sitting in my Grandparents' carport shelling peas and listening to the stories they would tell about each other (never about themselves).  One was about when my Grampa went camping.  He set up the tent only to find he was missing a stake. Undeterred, he tied that particular rope to the trunk lid of his car.  All was wonderful!  Until.......Grampa needed something out of the trunk.  When the trunk lid popped open the tent went flying leaving.  I laughed so hard I dropped my Gramma's "pea shellin'" pot and peas went EVERYWHERE.

When I remember to good times in life, a smile appears.  When I remember those whom have passed on, tears come.  And when I find myself getting down, I remember something my Grampa told me: "Too many folks are dead....they just don't have the good sense to lie down."  

When I get stuck in a routine, and can accomplish my routine without thinking...I have become one of those "walking dead" because I have gone to autopilot instead of living!  When we choose to live we will begin to see things we've taken for granted.  We will find that we actually want to be kind, courteous, considerate, and loving to the same people we have ignored or neglected.  

Here's my point: We are created in the very image of Abba.  He has breathed LIFE into us.  If we choose to merely exist...what an insult that must be to Abba.  Especially since His only Son died so we could live!