Isn’t there something incredible about just lifting our eyes and looking to the sky?

A canvas of colour, an ever-changing mystery that transforms regularly from the mundane to the breathtaking.  We don’t do it often enough. 

It puts things into perspective, reminds me that there is more to this life than the me-centered world that I live in. In fact, it reminds me how small I am. How very, very small. How insignificant, vulnerable and temporary I am. It acts as a metaphorical kick in the backside. It whispers a challenge, "It's not about you Anna. It's all about God".

So why should we want to do this more often?

Why should we glance up to a sky that reminds us of our fragility, and mortality? It’s uncomfortable revelation, but it challenges the way we see things, the way we live.

How would our world change if we each took more time to look at the sky, to feel the uncomfortable feeling that comes with knowing how small we are, and how temporary. Would it remind us of our huge God who knows the number of hairs on our heads? Would we live for different things?  Would we live more intentionally?

I have memories as a child, of sitting on the garden bench with my Dad during thunder storms, watching the lightening fork down to the ground. It was both beautiful and terrifying. A reminder of our powerful God - mighty and huge but at the same time, so intimately gentle.

Is life really lost by dying?

Or is it lost second by second, hour by hour – those days that we haven’t truly lived, but let slip away. Just another day. Maybe days could mean more than just another page of a diary, a crossed off square on a planner, maybe days could mean chances to chat to your students about God, opportunities to surprise someone with kindness, soften someone with compassion .

There are a million ways to waste and lose a day. And not a single way to get it back. 

Let's be a people who seek a Kingdom perspective, a heaven bound life. A day that counts, changes something, someone. somewhere. Let's use our God given gifts, talents and passions to LIVE. Really live the lives so passionately dreamt for us. Let's not be afraid to be challenged and moved. 

So, every day this week, I challenge you to look at the sky, to be challenged, and changed. Because, in the end, the way we spend our day, is the way we spend our life.

It's a choice we have to make on a daily, even hourly basis. And it's the difference between the mundane and the God transforming, Kingdom enlarging, people changing life. 

I have come that they might have life, and life to the full (John 10:10)

Anna Mathur