I'm pondering this morning...just how small my life is.

I'm not dminishing my life or what I have - a beautiful wife, great kids, lovely home, good career, etc.

But in the grand scheme of things, my life seems so small.  The things I worry about, what I spend my time and money doing.  It just all seems kind of insignificant sometimes.

Now, I know that I'm trying to invest into other people and to raise my kids right to make an impact on future generations.  So in that sense, my life has meaning.  We've celebrated a lot of things, and lived through ups and downs. 

But isn't there something bigger?  Isn't there something more?

The simple answer is "YES".  As a human being, I believe I have been born "into a larger story" as Author John Eldredge writes.  I think it's what all people face at some crossroads in their life.  The realization that there is something larger.  Then, we all set out on a quest to find what that is and how we fit into it.

As a Christ-follower, I also know that I have a role to play in the larger story of the Kingdom.  And though I've worked realled hard and even strived to find what that role is...that's not really the point.  I AM ALREADY PLAYING A PART...OR A ROLE IN THE STORY.  I'm not trying to find some pie in the sky.  My route through the story (and my place in the kingdom) is the very path I'm walking today.  Sometimes it will be tumultuous...other times victorious.  Sometimes I will stand out in the crowd...other times fade into the background of the story.  Some days will be tediously boring and unmemorable.  There will be other days that will seem like mine is the only story ever written. 

What peace there is in the knowing.  That I am His and He is mine.  That I don't have to strive to find some perfect part to play.  He has already written me into the story of eternity - and while I will fail and fall - He will work all things together for good!  I can give up the endless search for meaning...because my part in this story is being written day by day.  And on those days when I don't do right, or fail or miss opportunities to soar - there is always an opportunity for redemption.  Because God loves me so much, He won't settle for just writing me out of it.  He will always bring me back.  I don't have to do that work.  I don't have to find those answers.  I just have to find Him and know Him!  And He will lead me ever on!

I will leave you with the song or poem recited by Bilbo Baggins after his adventures in "The Hobbit" by JRR Tolkein.

Roads go ever ever on,

Over rock and under tree,

By caves where never sun has shone,

By streams that never find the sea;

Over snow by winter sown,

And through the merry flowers of June,

Over grass and over stone,

And under mountains of the moon.

Roads go ever ever on

Under cloud and under star,

Yet feet that wandering have gone

Turn at last to home afar.

Eyes that fire and sword have seen

And horror in the halls of stone

Look at last on meadows green

And trees and hills they long have known.

   

 

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