Waiting

"How much of human life is lost in waiting?" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pondering the days of my life and where I am and what I have accomplished. I realized that it was never the accomplishments at all I desired, yet the feeling of freedom. The feeling of escaping an invisible captivity and a breath of fresh air.

In the new movie out with actress Julia Roberts called Eat, Pray, Love it depicts the life of lost and confused married woman. As she scrapes up the pieces of a crumbled life that isn't what she thought life would be she dates a strapping young man many years younger than her. As she is laying and crying on the floor next to this guy's bed... he simply says to her... "stop waiting". And that is just it.

As I have traveled in South America and sought after those things that I thought brought happiness, I realized happiness is in the journey its self. It's not the arrival of getting on top or making the sale graduating school. Yes it is a great relief to get a commission check or be done with satanic school of college or to become successful in business, yet that too... that feeling... it wares off and fades away.

What has never faded away is the memories of people and experiences. Whether they were success or failures. The experience brought me knowledge and learning. And this has lead to hope that there is more. And little by little I learn how small I really am in the scheme of things and how much more there is out there besides the small World that has been created in my mind.

Romans 5:1-8
"Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."

Realizing there is more than just ourselves in this life encourages us not to wait. Going and doing is a temporal and eternal principle.

The B Side To The Truth is life is now. It is not gonna begin one day... it has already began. No matter your situation it is your situation and the ability of making the best of it while learning to better the situation giving. Money is said to buy everything and anything... as I rapidly pass through life I realize it can't buy everything... it can't buy back time. So ask yourself... how are you spending the currency of time in this game of life?

Colton - discover your true'ness'