this small musing has been in the works for quite sometime. ever since my birthday. july 26.
{B A C K S T O R Y}
what does this mean?
well.... I am still kinda figuring that out. but in my simple mind it means that you
have a backstory and you are someones backstory.
when my birthday rolled around i did the natural thing that i think alot of people do when they start getting older, i started looking back at the road i had come from and what kind of dents i had put in it.
i saw the places where the glowing and glittering paved path stole me, i also saw the places where the straight and narrow dirt road compelled me deeply and i chose Christ with heart+soul. and that is the map of this life. i am compelled. i'm either all in, or not at all. looking back sometimes i see places where the path had seemed to end and a mountain had to be climbed or there was a river to swim across. all these things are pictures of how i have viewed my life but more importantly, what has my life been full of? saturated with? overflowing from?
{F A I T H F U L N E S S}
and this is not speaking of my own doing. this is what Christ has done for me. He is committed to this relationship for eternity and i am reminded every day.
{H U M A N I T Y}
we walk together. we do life together. the paths that we all choose, those intersect with another. everyday.
here is my thought....
because we do life with other people naturally every interaction with have with them leaves us just a little different than we were before. the way that others choose to do life is in some part going to effect how we do life. for example....stephen the first martyr. if he had chosen not to love God and be a vessel he would not have died with such powerful grace, which in turn would not have impacted saul (paul) quite so deeply. stephen is apart of paul's back story. every celebrity, every president, and king or queen is the son or daughter of someone and their parents are apart of their backstory. the behind the scenes is a powerful and telling place. this is not to say that God cannot get it done on his own, this is to say that we are given very unique opportunities.
you have a backstory, and you are apart of someones backstory.
{C A R O L}
she was my grade school piano teacher. she was one of my best friends for along time and only now i have been able to see the lasting impact she placed on my life every tuesday from 1-2:30. at that piano bent over those keys, frustrated sometimes to the point of tears is where i saw an outstanding picture of love and grace beyond performance. she was almost 50, i was 12. even though i don't see her now, that relationship was gold to me.
{T W E N T Y O N E}
having turned 21 i was hit with the thought of who's backstory am i apart of? who have i breathed life into through my actions and words. our daily interactions are more incredible than we can realize. i am now twenty one, young in the eyes of the world, but that is already alot of years that will resound into eternity and speak of where my treasure has been stored up. my mind goes to Proverbs 16:24
"Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body"
this is all very simple but my challenge is to remember your platform. the stage lights are never turned off, you are in a role that is very necessary because it is a supporting role. you are where you are at for a very unique purpose. you are apart of someones backstory, you are apart of who someone is. be fully who you are because you know that it is not about you.