Meteor Shower

4/8/09…Father, I thank you for my friend because he taught me a lesson in life that to this day I still hold close to my heart. Seize the moment, because life is meant to live. These words he never uttered to me, but he showed me in action. At first I was too dumb to realize his approach to life, and sometimes I thought it was silly, irrational, wasteful, and any number of things of whom someone like me with a practical bent could say. And then one day, I realized how much of life I had been missing out on, how much better it is to lose sleep sometimes. And you Father taught me risk, living life is about taking risks for You because when we do is when You reveal Your glory of blessings to us. For having faith in You, and believing even in the desert that somehow someway You will come through for us…

And so my friend asks me if I would like to see the shooting stars. There is a meteor shower occurring that night that he heard about. I said, sure, “what time will it occur?” He responds, “3am.” What!! I say, 3am!!! Part of me said, I am not getting up at 3am to watch shooting stars, I really would rather sleep. But then Father, somehow even when I was not walking with You during this time, You nudged me to get out of a comfort zone, to get out of bed. So I said yes, wake me up at 3am so I can watch the shooting stars and at 3am he did wake me up along with his wife and two sons. Groggily I walked outside in the crisp cool night air and looked up…and behold it was one of the most beautiful sights I had ever seen. The shooting stars were coming from everywhere. It looked as if You were painting white lines in the sky…and I stood there in awe, my soul elevated because of the beauty I was witnessing. Somehow sleep did not seem so important anymore. And as the moment passed, never to return again for eternity, my soul still remembers and reminds me to this day, to seize the moment…