You're Gonna Miss This

We always want to be going on to the next thing. Just the other day I caught myself thinking about the future and how much I desire that, not embracing my life as it is.

This is something all of us as college students struggle with. I remember having a conversation my freshman year first semester with a friend who had just graduated. I said to him "I can't wait to be done with school" and he stopped me and told me to embrace this time. The four years that we spend in college are the only four years we have like this, fully embrace them.

Today I was driving to a coffee shop to meet a friend and this song came on

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBDN8yWyNYU

You're gonna miss this
You're gonna want this back
You're gonna wish these days hadn't gone by so fast
These are some good times
So take a good look around
You may not know it now
But you're gonna miss this

I started thinking about the lyrics as I was driving - and just realized how each moment in our lives is a precious time, a time we won't get back. We need to embrace each moment fully and learn to see the beauty in it.

It's so hard to desire the future, thinking to ourselves "I just need to get this" whatever "this" may be, and I'll be happy. But really, our only true home is in Jesus so we need to embrace the moments we have, and learn to be content where we're at because Jesus has us in that moment for a reason.