Paper Airplane

As the years go on more and more things are being created and designed to help make life easy or more interesting. We have things now that read for us, that write for us and even lawn mowers that we don't even have to be there to use. Even kids are now playing with computers and electric scooters. Don't get me wrong technology is so helpful and I wouldn't trade it for anything but what ever happened to the basics?

What happened to the days of a blank sheet of paper making some folds and trying to see who could out fly each other in a paper airplane contest? You had to make sure it was perfect and didn't have to many extra folds or it wouldn't fly the way you wanted it to. You had to make it as crisp and clean as possible. It seemed so simple but may times it wouldn't fly. 

I like to compare paper airplanes to us and God. God starts off with a clean piece of paper and starts to fold and create. Sometimes we decide to take the folding into our own hands and make a crease that affects our flight path and we think its done. Does God decide to crumple up our paper and throw us away? No. He smoothes us out and refolds and shapes us to get back into a plane.

What happens when you throw your plane as hard as you can and it nose dives? Thats when you pick it up and look it over and adjust to help make it better. Much like how God examines our hearts and helps make the adjustments we need to get back into the race. Although the correction might call for some tape or weight it doesn't mean that you cant win.

Although corrections can always be made and your plane is never perfect you always have the same goal and that is to fly. God gives us this goal as he prepares us to be pushed into the flight plan that he has for us. Our goal is not to fly the farthest or the highest or to even get there the fastest but to simply stay in the air. God will guide and correct and help us when the weather might be tuff. He wont stop folding or picking us up when we fall. God is a caring God you just have to be willing to do your part. 

Just some thoughts from a paper airplane. 

Its Time

"Isn't it great to know that we have a big enough God that we can't exaggerate."-Crazy Love

In life we always seem to find reasons to make things better then what they are. We exaggerate about things like how many sit-ups we do at the gym or maybe how many zeros follow the first digit on our pay check. We have a constant battle with people to be sure that we look the best and have the best things and we are never satisfied with what we have. When it all comes down to it does it really matter what we have? 

We exaggerate the things of no importance but when it comes to God we underestimate. We all come together and seek after God saying we want to have the stories to tell that we don't have to exaggerate. So we pray or maybe fast and in some cases we take matters into our own hands and try to make God move. When does it start or when does it end? How do we get to the point where we can tell our own stories that people might not believe but we can because we experienced it?

I don't have all the answers but I do know that I am not willing to give up. When we seek after God and truly look to the one who is never over exaggerated how can we be let down? Its time to shift the focus off ourselves and back onto God. 

Just some thoughts put into words.

Famous Last Words

Often as Christians we are given one task. This task may seem easy to some and impossible to others but at the end of the day its still our task. We have the task to share our faith. Some people read books, others take classes and few people just go out and do it. Some people become fearful or sometimes over zealous and hit the extremes of both sides. Where is the balance?

When looking over my life and the opportunities I have had to share my faith I cant say I have done the best job. Often blocking myself off from the world around me to be sure that I don’t have to feel what they are going through. I know we are not perfect and all need to work on things in our lives and I have but it just makes me think about what will people remember about me.

I looked up some famous last words and it made me think about this being what people remember about you and what you said at the end.

Jean Cocteau said "Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking towards me, without hurrying."

Edgar Allan Poe said "Lord help my poor soul."

Karl Marx said as his house keeper asked him for his last words "Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough!"

Francisco ("Pancho") Villa said "Don’t let it end like this. Tell them I said something."

I don’t want the things I say to have to wait till my death bed to be remembered.

Its putting action to your words that counts.