Opus 2025-274: Every Cog Counts

As I sit on my porch, worshiping, meditating, praying, and yes, writing, my mind goes in many different directions.  Today, one of the rabbit trails lead down to thinking about the many people who have been a part of my life and a blessing to me over the years.  Hopefully I’ve been somewhat of a blessing to them too.  It is good to remember.  It’s good to be grateful.

As I was wandering down this path, I found another branch to go off and it occurred to me that all the wonderful things in my life when compared to the tapestry of eternity were statistically insignificant.  I’m now 77.  I might make it to 80.  I might make it to 90.  Compared to eternity that is insignificant.  Then you have to factor in divinity, the mind of God, the power of God, and the plan of God.

Let’s face it, we really don’t know what God’s final plan is.  We can dream.  We can speculate.  We can make our finite imaginations run wild.  We can’t even come close.  What I can know is that even though I am just a cog in the wheel of the universe, God still is weaving it together and giving me my own little corner or possibly a little patch in the middle.  It doesn’t matter it’s a beautiful tapestry.

One of the great things about this final tapestry is that those who arrive there will have had their arrogance and self-centered pride purged to the point where all they can do is rejoice that they are there in a part of it.  I don’t see any squabbling over who has the bigger patch on the quilt, or in popular terminology who has the bigger mansion.  We will rejoice and just being a part of it.  If someone else gets the jelly doughnut and we get the cake, then we will celebrate, enjoy what they have and delight in what we have been given.

Someone once came up with the phrase, “All roads lead to Rome.”  In my life all rabbit trails lead to eternity.  I hope to see you there, not soon, but with the timing is right.

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