It's been said that during our life span if we live to be 70 years old we'll spend almost 20 years asleep, almost 10 years watching re-runs on TV, 7 years eating and drinking, 5 years in some sort of transport, 18 months just waiting in line, 6 months waiting for traffic lights to turn green, 18 months using the washroom, but you'll also spend almost one month and five days picking your nose, which is kind of funny because allot of us spend more time picking away at our nose than we spend thinking about God or how we're going to spend eternity*.

You know I meet tons of young people who say that they "live for the moment", you know take it one day at a time. You know that's all fantastic but what about when we die? Do we ever think about that? I mean it's going to happen. It's...inevitable. There is no escape from death. When I hear people say that they "live for the moment" that means that no matter whats happening in their life they will always be stuck in that moment. Bono from U2 wrote a wicked awesome song called "Stuck in a moment that you can't get out of". One of the lines goes like this, "

You've got to get yourself together
You've got stuck in a moment and now you can't get out of it
Don't say that later will be better now you're stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it

Now I'm not some super genius but I've learned that in life we go through situations whether it's family problems or friend problems or stuff about how we feel about ourselves. Sometimes we feel so worthless; what's the point in going further in life, it just looks more screwed up than what it is now. But that's not the
way it is intended. Yes we will go through times and situations that seems like we'll never make it out alive. Sometimes all we see is the crap and the garbage - and that sucks. But what I have learned is that the way is it supposed to be is that Jesus wants to be found in the crap and the garbage. Along time ago, almost 2000 years to be exact Jesus purposely died for all the crap we do and all that we go through. Sadly, allot of people choose not to believe that or they have never been told that. So for allot of people the answer to life's problems are either found in some high or some drunken romp just so that the problem can go away for awhile. But alas when we wake up from our bout of problem solving we find
sometimes we've gotten our selves more hurt in what we think is the best solution. All to often we end up thinking that if we unload our problems or our issues and hurts on people who are just as screwed up as we are that things will magically disappear with the help of someone else in the end, however, we have
nothing to show for our problems other than two majorly screwed up people.

Life is...weird. But it is one of the greatest gifts we have ever been given. God wants to be included in all of our lives no matter how screwed up we are. Jesus wants to be found in the crap of our lives, but we also wants to see us through that. He wants nothing more than for us to look to him for that way out of our issues. He wants nothing more than for us to find him and give our lives meaning.

What would life be like if we suddenly realized that living for Jesus meant living for eternity?

What if that were true?