Five MInute Friday - Milestone

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One word. Five minutes to write about it. This is the idea behind Five Minute Friday and this is today's free-writing post.

milestone birthday

the next milestone

milestone achievements

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 Our family will be celebrating a milestone birthday soon, as our granddaughter will be turning one. She's already passed milestones like rolling over, sitting up, standing up; and there will be many more firsts and milestones to come for her. 

Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. ~Rose Kennedy

We regularly celebrate milestones like birthdays and anniversaries and holidays. In the past several years we've marked milestones of weddings, graduations, new jobs, and others. An engagement, a wedding, and an anniversary, are mile markers on the journey of a relationship. A graduation ceremony is a celebration of the significant progress made on the journey towards career and life goals. None of these milestones are stopping points, but reminders of how far we've come and how much we've already achieved.

Remember to celebrate milestones as you prepare for the road ahead. ~Nelson Mandela

In the Bible, we read about important milestone events that were marked by the building of an altar or the setting up of a stone. Monuments that were reminders of what God had done and what had happened at that place. Jacob set up a stone at the place where God spoke to him through his dream of an angelic ladder. Israel took twelve stones from the Jordan and set them up as a monument that God had brought them safely across. And there are many more examples. In our day, we consider reaching another birthday or anniversary our milestones, but it's easy to think of the achievements as our own. Maybe we also need to remind ourselves of the milestone moments when God brought us through a difficulty or crisis, and when we heard from him in a special way. 

In the future, when your children ask you, "What do these stones mean?" tell them that the flow of the Jordan was cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it crossed the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones are to be a memorial to the people of Israel forever.

~Joshua 4:6-7~

Afterward, Samuel took a stone and set it upright between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, explaining, "The LORD has helped us to this point."

~I Samuel 7:12~

Write it down. Put it on the calendar. Journal it. Take a picture. The Lord has helped us to this point. He got us this far. He'll get us to the next milestone too, and the next one after that, until we reach our heavenly home.

 

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Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these. ~Susan B. Anthony

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This post is linked at Five Minute Friday for the word prompt "Milestone".

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