Life is a “doozy”, isn’t it? Yea, but that’s OK – because it’s what we have and what we’ve been given. So – whether we like it or not – we’re here – so live with it.
We sure are a bunch of characters, aren’t we? I mean – just take a good look at yourself – we really think we have some significance, don’t we? We post our thoughts and musings on this Facebook page – we tell our intimate little world of friends (most of them aren’t, we just say they are) what we’re thinking for the moment or what we’ve just done or are thinking of doing – and then some of us post some great quote or philosophical viewpoint (as I’m doing right now) that we think – well – maybe we weren’t thinking when we posted it after all – anyways – the point being: we’re here and we want our friends to know it. And then we sit back and wait for the world to change 
As I get up this early morning (5am) February 10, 2010 – I realize what life is not: it’s not about me. Oh – but hold it a minute now – because here’s where the problem lies: I think it is. LOL And don’t you get on your high-horse to fast either – because that’s what you think about yourself also. We’re all in the same boat – friends: we think life revolves around us, or at least – we would like to think it does.
Yesterday was a fun day. Kathy’s older sister and husband are visiting from North Dakota and are staying at the Holiday Inn on Folly Beach for a few days. We helped get them settled in a room overlooking the ocean (which they think is real cool – and it is) and then they took us out to a neat little seafood restaurant for lunch, and it was real good. Afterwards we did some sight-seeing, watched some surfers do their thing and to top the day off we had some key-lime pie and bread pudding in a quaint little ocean-side cafe and watched the sun go down on the mighty Atlantic. Real cool – yes I must say – a real cool day.
But in the midst of all these real cool things yesterday – something else happened. We stopped at a grave. And I as looked down at that person’s picture on that gravestone – it all came full-circle, it all came home. We cried – and we remembered. And in the midst of all our pleasantries of our day – profoundly – it all made sense: it’s not about me – it’s about God! So as important as I think I am, and as important as you think you are – remember this – you’re not, and I’m not either. It doesn’t matter what I think – it doesn’t matter what you think – it doesn’t matter what your friends think. When it all comes down – when the rubber meets the road – all that matters is what “God thinks”! Our significance in life does not come from people – it comes from God. And furthermore – if you don’t know that – you’re wasting your time and your life.
I have a plaque that hangs on the wall directly above me in my office. It says this: Only one life – Twill soon be past – Only what’s done for Christ will last. And following that – if there ever was a statement that truly has significance – it says this: “To me to live is Christ”. That statement is a thought written by a man called of God to help pen God’s Word – Paul, the Apostle. Fully stated the thought says this in the book to the Philippians chapter 1 verse 21: “For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain” (KJV).
As I looked down at that person’s grave, someone very dear to me, I knew that whatever significance she had while she was here, it was in her “living for Christ” and that in her dying (as much as I didn’t want to see her go) that she truly “gained”. That’s significance!
