Blink!!

How many times have you heard a song that you just can't get out of your head?  It's typically a really lame song that you heard on a commercial or in a store and you'd give anything to get it out of your head.  Well, I actually have a good song that's been stuck in my head for the past few days.  It's called "Blink" by the Christian band Revive and the lyrics are:

Blink, by Revive
Teach me to number my days
And count every moment before it slips away
Take in all the colors before they fade to gray
I don't want to miss even just a second more of this

Refrain:
It happens in a blink
It happens in a flash
It happens in the time it takes to look back
I try to hold on tight, but there's no stopping time
What is it I've done with my life
It happens in a blink

When it's all said and done
No one remembers how far we have run
The only thing that matters is how we have loved
I don't want to miss even just a second more of this

Refrain

Slow down, slow down
Before today becomes our yesterday
Slow down, slow down
Before you turn around and it's too late

Refrain 


You can Google it and listen to the actual song which is much more awesome than just reading the lyrics, although the lyrics are pretty powerful.  I love the first line, "Teach me to number my days."  You know the Bible actually tells us to "number our days" in Psalms 39:4 (NIV), "Show me, O Lord, my life's end and the number of my days; let me know how fleeting is my life."  In Psalms 90:12 (NIV), Moses asks God to "Teach us to number our days alright, that we may gain a heart of wisdom." 

After thinking about this numbering my days concept, I actually sat down and numbered my days - it's pretty sobering to realize that if I live to be 87 years old, which is 1 year more than my mother had lived, as of today, I have 13,197 days left to live or 1,099 months.  What happens when we put a time limit on things?  I don't know about you, but when I put a time limit on something I'm doing, I tend to move a bit faster than if I had all day.  Well, guess what?  You start putting a time limit on the number of days you estimate your life to have left, and now you're going to find your life has a whole new meaning.  Instead of "waiting" in order for things to happen like "When I lose weight, I'll finally do..." or "I don't have time now to take care of this, but I will when..." your "whens" start to become a bit more urgent and it's suddenly not so important to lose weight before going on that vacation you always wanted to go on.  You suddenly realize that you only have 4 more years before your oldest son starts college and if you're not careful, you'll blink and miss his entire high school years because you're too busy waiting for "when" to happen. 

If you dare to number your days, post how many you estimate to have left and let's all start to help each other in slowing down and realizing what our blinks in life are right now!!  Friday night, after dropping Josh (my 14-yo) and his friends at the high school for an away game they had, I picked up Jack and Jakob and drove to Monroeville to celebrate my nephew, Michael's, 19th birthday.  Someone had commented to me that I'm crazy for driving all over creation and that my nephew wouldn't mind if I didn't show.  I agreed but realized that in a few short years, Michael will be out of college and starting his life.  My reply was simply, "This is my blink!!"  And now it's Sunday night and Friday night is a memory - a very wonderful memory!!!

Lord, Show us how to number our days and to realize that your plans for us is bigger than what we can even imagine.  Help us to listen for your direction, Lord.  Amen and Amen!!

Check back on Thursday night for the continuation of, "Bad Girls of the Bible."