Get Busy Living or...

I love the movie "The Shawshank Redemption." It is hands down my favorite movie because I love the "this is how it happened" moment at the end of the movie. More important than that I love that hope is the theme showcased throughout the movie. Arguably the most famous quote from the movie, "Get busy living, or get busy dying" is something that I feel I need to remind myself more often.

I'm guilty of the desire for comfort. I find what is easy and I make it work as long as I can stand the situation that is providing my easy. I currently work in a job where I make really good money (more money than I've ever made in my life) and that makes life pretty comfortable for me, but I'm not happy. I'm not happy because I know I was put on this earth for something greater than what this "easy" job will give me. I truly believe that Abba has a plan for me, something so much greater than I can imagine and the longer I stay where I am the longer I'm putting off what I'm supposed to be doing.

In the United States we spend so much of our lives in whatever 9-5 situation we find ourselves. Most people don't like their jobs, but it pays the bills and so they stay there for 20 years dreading Monday morning and longing for Friday afternoon. I don't want this to be my story. I believe whole heartedly that if I'm following in my vocation that the jobs I have and the careers I lead will never feel like work. I want to not be able to tell the difference between the way I feel on Monday morning and how I feel on Saturday afternoon.

In the words of Jon Foreman, "we were mean to live for so much more." I want to "get busy living" because I have a hope for our future and I know that I have a part to play in that. It won't be an easy road, but it will be exactly where I need to be. Starting now I refuse to accept anything less than absolutely extraordinary.