Tracks In The Dust

A Father's Advice About Learning the Mission of Life

15 Feb 2012

The Verb To Love

Before I was in love with my wife, I had an idea of what love was. A deep feeling of passion and rememberance. A way to feel that was part of songs and poetry. Time had captured a high-school romantic way to know about despirate love and the pain when it was over. Everyone has a different definition, but the verb “to love” I have learned has a meaning depending on where you started and how you got there.

After I fell in love with my wife, I realized how easy it was to be fooled into believing you were in love. It was so much more once you know that it means more. Its really unfair, because until you know that love- you can’t understand it. And once you do know that love, you cannot explain it to anyone quite exactly the way it is. But people will tell you they know, that they are aware of it. Perhaps they do- but only you and her will know for sure. And then they try to capture it by making a “day” out of it. Even more impossible on this February 14th.

Posted in Before and After Things Change and tagged Valentines Day

07 Feb 2012

The Dividing Line

Before you met the love of your life, after you met them. Before you understood God’s forgiveness, after your realize you are saved. Before you are told you have cancer, after you know that you will fight the rest of your life. Before you had children, after your first child (and every one after). Before you heard the song that changed your life, afterward what it means to you each time you hear it. Before you read the book that changed your perspective on everything that came after it, every day after that.

There is a dividing line that changes things, like a hinge swinging along the angles that make up each turn as you spend your life on earth. Think about the ingredients that make up who you are, and make sure that your mission is to share those things that can change the people around you, the people you love, the people you work with, your friends and the people you interact with every day. Like a hinge swinging; it will move the doors as one closes behind you and another opens before you.

Posted in Before and After Things Change

06 Feb 2012

Before and After

Since time keeps moving no matter what you do, every moment has a before and an after. Until life ends there are defining moments in every minute of your life. Those moments are precious. Some are painful, some are joyful, and some pass without notice. I believe that everyone on this Earth was put here by God’s grace for a purpose.

In days gone by, writing a journal or log in on paper or a book seemed practical, but in these days it seems like a blog may be the method. So if anyone ends up reading any of this, I take it as an honor. If no one should read this, perhaps it is a selfish indulgence. Either way it is what is is.

Before & After each moment, life changes. I want to document some of those thoughts as life is passing by kind of fast. Inspired by David Crosby’s “Tracks In the Dust”- we are all moving through life kind of fast. God willing we get to make some difference every day in the mission of life as we have our before and after moments.

Posted in Before and After Things Change

06 Feb 2012

TracksintheDust

Tracks In The Dust by David Crosby

“I think we are passing by here kind of fast. Do you think these tracks in the dust would last?”

So it begins, and so it will end. Every moment has a Before and an After, an opportunity to be who you should be, a place in time. In between we travel along the path, sharing God’s love and our laughter.