childlike

i watched a movie the other night about a middle-aged woman who had been divorced, and she used her time to do the things that she put on hold due to her identity being solely placed into mother and wife.

and now that both were seemingly in shambles to no fault of her own - she was left with a wide-open space of time to feel her way around in -

what she chose to do with the newfound time available to her is something that made me question what it is i was doing with my own time available -

am i solely placing my identity into motherhood and wife? or am i loosely holding onto that because i know that my identity isn't found in those things alone -

eternity is a long time (without time) to spend feeling our way around and doing the things that we felt we once had no time to do - because of time.

from a heavenly perspective - to bend time to a slower pace - where all things are unrushed and all things are simply just done in love - is an interesting concept to behold and play with.

the word tells us to keep our minds on heavenly things - yet how can we possibly think on heavenly things - if we've not experienced it or tasted it or come to know it?

what if in your free time today you gauged an interest in pondering the idea of what heaven was like, and what heavenly things would be like?

what if you began imagining again?

is that so childlike - and yet we're his little children -

i encourage you today to dabble in childlike behavior -

imagine.

heavenly things.