A moment passed with sleepy clouds

About a month ago I had to go into Tegucigalpa (Tegucigalpa: the capital city of Honduras and the main city where I do my shopping. Tegucigalpa is about and hour from the ranch.) for a meeting of sorts. I had to leave the Ranch around six in the morning in order to make my appointment. I rode in with a few of the teens who go to school in the city. The students happened to be in exams that same week, so on the way into the city most of them were getting some last minute studying in. I was enjoying the bumpy ride down the dirt road, thinking of nothing in particular. A few minutes later we came around a bend where a beautiful valley is nestled into the mountains. I really love this spot and my eyes quickly traveled to the valley, what I saw took my breath away. The clouds were still resting their sleepy heads on the sides of the mountains. It wasn't just "fog" that is like a large blanket, but it was like the clouds descended to have a slumber party. There were many clouds nestled cozily against the mountains and in the valley. It really was beautiful, I looked around the car, to get the others reaction to the beautiful landscape. They still had their heads bowed studying. That is when it hit me... how often was I like those teens? You know so busy with "life" that I missed the treasures that God placed before me. They were doing just what they "needed" to be doing. Most would agree that before a big test you should study, but yet they missed such an awesome moment. How do you balance that, living your life...and not missing out on life? How do you get the things done that you have to do, without neglecting the people who are important to you, or missing the little treasures given to you throughout the day? Even aside from missing out on stuff because of "duties" think how often we miss out on moments worrying about yesterday, tomorrow, 2 minutes from now. It was a great reminder to me that there really is more to life than deciding what I'm going to have for dinner, when I'm going to mow my grass, or how I'm going to spend the weekend. Jesus even talks about this in Matthew 6:19-34, He says,
"19 Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. 22 The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, 23 but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness! 24 No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.25 Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? 28 And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, 29 yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31 Therefore do not be anxious, saying, What shall we eat? or What shall we drink? or What shall we wear? 32 For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. 34 Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble."
Wow, He said that so much better than me. Isn't it even funny how often I have read those verses, and yet it didn't truly sink in until that moment. God is very patient, he teaches us the same lessons that He has been teaching us, but when we don't get it He is so kind to speak to us in an other way so that we do get it. What a great God we serve!