”Life is not the number of breaths you take but the number of moments that take your breath away.”
That quote just kind of marinade my brain and kept coming back in my quite times over the next few days. It occurred to me how true that statement is. We often see living as a biological process of breathing, eating, and ageing. But we know there’s more.
Hitch’s (Will Smith’s character) job was to help in creating opportune moments when a guy will have the ability to sweep the love of his life of her feet. To create a moment that will take her breath away. To do everything he can to cause her fall in love with that guy. While watching the movie, I realized that God has the same job. How often in the midst of everything we do, do we overlook the fact that God wants to sweep us off our feet… daily. He creates moments where he wants to take our breath away….A sunrise, a sunset, a birth of a child, a moment with a loved one, a laugh in the office, or maybe prick of certainty in your heart during those uncertain times. However, there are a lot of times when we let these moments pass us by. We get caught up in living from one breath to another…one problem, one solution, one goal, one service, one program, or one deadline to another. These breath taking moments often come at the most inopportune times, when we don’t have the time to enjoy them. But that is when we need them the most. That is when we should take a minute and enjoy every breathtaking moment God puts before us. So right now, stop what you’re doing. Move away from your keyboard. Silence your cell phone. Turn off your TV, radio, or Ipod. Think about your day today, yesterday, and last week. Where is God trying to take your breath away and sweep you off your feet?
Sunshine is sweet; it is good to see the light of day. People ought to enjoy every day of their lives, no matter how long they live.
~Ecclesiastes 11:7-8
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