You Are Here
I took this picture a couple of years ago at the Franklin Institute. This sign was located in a stairwell between exhibits. I just thought it was funny. What can I say? This is my humor, and you’re stuck with it if you’re still reading my blog.
As I think about the sign, “You Are Here,” I think it’s a good reminder for me. Sometimes, it can be easy to get stuck in our past – where we dwell on either our victories or defeats. Let’s face it, we often like the way things were just because that’s what we’re used to. Does that make sense?
On the other hand, sometimes, it can be easy to get caught up in the worries (and hopes) of the future. I think it’s good to have hopes and dreams and to go after them. But sometimes, we deal with anxiety because we’re so focused on what might happen in the future. We are crippled by questions which have answers that are out of our control.
As I think about this, two passages come to mind:
He says, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.” Psalm 46:10
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” Matthew 6:25-34
These offer great reminders to rejoice in today – this moment in time when the past is in the past, and God holds the future in His hands.
I am here. Where are you?