One of those days. One of those days where you wake up and read John and life is grand. And your kids are fabulous and you clean the mud room and go to Hobby Lobby (and don't even get annoyed by the people wrapping everything in tissue that are checking out in front of you) and you paint the planets (literally!) and you feel like you accompished the world.
And then you look around and you realize your house pretty much looks the same as it did when you woke up.
What?!
Sure some piles have moved. And the office is making progress. And some papers are filed and the lightbulbs have a new home but really not much changed. But that is ok. And this is my big/little revelation today. That is what so much of life is. So much of life is looking at the end of a day and not looking at it through the lens of productivity through what can be measured by the eye but what can be measured in other ways.
Today I spent time in the word for the first time in way too long. Really spent time and really felt connected to Jesus. If I spent all day doing that it would have been "more productive" than other days but my house wouldn't have looked like I did anything.
Yesterday I spent time biking, going to brunch, and loving life with Jeremy. Definitely the best use of my time...but again. It didn't look like I did much of anything when really I did so much.
What is it in us that fights for it to look like we accomplished so much when that isn't what matters in life? What is it that wants us to get the gold stars for what we did when who we are and how we spend time with people is so much more grand?
So today I will grow in that doing what matters isn't always what meets the eye. Watching movies together. Painting planets. Playing basketball. Having campfires. Being together. Going out with friends. Laughing. Investing.
For, it is truly in what we do that isn't measureable that can make the greatest difference of all. Let that sink in...
Happy summer Rach. The perfect time to live the unmeasurable in life.
