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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.
someday never comes
someday my prince will come
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I have a list of things I want to do 'someday' - do you? The trouble with thinking I'll do those fun things someday, or that I'll finish that project I'm working on someday, is that first little saying. Too often, someday never comes. It's too vague to put on the calendar and there's no real deadline or urgency. We wanted to finish the second floor of the garage someday, but we lived there for twenty years and never got to it. We had to first clean out all the stuff that we stored there, and we meant to do that someday too. But we didn't make it a priority, so we didn't get too far with that either, and then we moved. In every place we've lived, we've had a list of parks or museums or other sites we wanted to visit someday, but without putting it on the calendar and making a plan to do it on a specific day, it didn't happen. We have a list of vacation destinations where we'd like to travel someday, but realistically we don't have the time or money to do most of those trips, so those are mostly wishful thinking.
I think I'll always have things on my list that I'll do 'someday' and there's nothing wrong with that. But the things that are really important to me should be planned with a more specific time frame, or they may not get done. I'll miss out on an interesting experience, or I may miss an important opportunity. It's one thing to miss my chance to see the immersive art Monet exhibit (which I may, because we still haven't come up with a day to go see it that works with our calendar), but it would be quite another thing to miss out on doing something God has told me to do because I just never got around to it.
Someday I will have to give an account of myself. How would the Father in Heaven judge me if I followed others and not Him? ~Anton Bruckner
"But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. Be on guard! Be alert! You do not know when that time will come. It's like a man going away: He leaves his house and puts his servants in charge, each with their assigned task, and tells the one at the door to keep watch. Therefore keep watch because you do not know when the owner of the house will come back―whether in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or at dawn. If he comes suddenly, do not let him find you sleeping. What I say to you, I say to everyone: 'Watch!'"
~Mark 13:32-37~
We know that 'someday our Prince will come' and we want to be ready! We don't know when that 'someday' will happen, and we can't know when our own somedays may run out, so we really shouldn't put off being obedient and living out what God has called us to until 'someday'.
Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money." Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that." . . . If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn't do it, it is sin for them.
~James 4:13-17~
As a lifelong procrastinator, I am too often at fault for thinking I'll do it someday when I could or should do it today. To paraphrase another saying: Why put off until someday what God has set before you today?
Live everyday as if it were your last because someday you're going to be right. ~Muhammad Ali
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Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car. ~Evan Davis
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There's nothing wrong with wishful thinking,
ReplyDeleteor so I'll say that I have found
this real after some heavy drinking,
'cause that's what makes the world go 'round.
The wish is father of the thought
which is the mother of the deed,
and that's what to the world has brought
so much good to fill the need
to hope that dreams can still come true,
even after much is lost,
and so, my friend, I say to you
please don't give up, whatever cost,
on the wishes that you hold,
for your tale's not yet fully told.
We had similar thoughts on our #FiveMinuteFriday posts! I enjoyed reading yours and could identify so much with things we hoped to do in our house but haven't gotten to them because we haven't made a plan. May God help us to know what is important and what can be set aside and then make those plans. :) Blessings to you! I"m your neighbor at FMF.
ReplyDeleteI would like to write to this prompt. Someday in our family equals approximately 6 years length of time as my mother told us the whole time we lived in Boston that someday we would have a nicer house, I would have a nice bedroom with matching curtains and spread. We lived in Boston 6 years before moving to Memphis where my parents bought our first family home.
ReplyDeleteI am a list maker for the very reason that other wise things don't happen. I often just forget that I wanted to plant herbs or give myself a mani. If I write it down, it is much more likely to happen.
Amen to "the things that are really important to me should be planned with a more specific time frame, or they may not get done."
ReplyDeleteLove the quote by Muhammad Ali