{march forth}

Today is the 4th of March. Or with a little play on of words it is March Forth! Just a little reminder early in the year to go forth and live out the year well. Get out there and do something. Or just remember to cherish each day. Even if nothing exciting happened, you were granted another day on this planet to enjoy the beauty around you and to savor simple pleasures. On that thought, in our Sunday School at church we are studying Ecclesiastes. Last Sunday we were in ch. 6 and dwelled on vs. 3. Here is a man that lived long, had a hundred children but did not take pleasure in the good things. Though he had family he wasn't properly buried. I felt as though I had a pretty good grasp on it but yesterday a song on the radio shed new light on the matter. It was Toby Mac's "Lose My Soul" and it suddenly dawned on me, the man in Eccl. 6:3 had gained the world but lost his soul. He was so consumed with the material things in this world that he missed the big picture. Who cares how much money you have, where you live or what you drive. If you are not awed by mountains, oceans and sunrises, if you do not take pleasure in going barefoot in summer or being kissed by a gentle breeze, if you are not happy with a good book, a cup of tea and the company of a dear friend, you have nothing. Don't let life pass by you because you are striving for the temporary things of this world.

"If a man begets a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with goodness, or indeed he has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better than he." - Ecclesiastes 6:3

I ran across this quote from Emily Dickinson the other day and want to share it with you -
"You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown and a dog as large as myself."
Sounds pretty good to me, too!