Am I gonna miss this?

Have you ever heard the song by trace Adkins "You' re Gonna Miss This"?. . .

She was staring out the window of their SUV complaining, saying "I can't wait to turn 18". She said "I'll make my own money, and I'll make my own rules". Momma put the car in park out there in front of the school. Then she kissed her head and said "I was just like you"

You're gonna miss this. You're gonna want this back. You're gonna wish these days hadn't gone by so fast. These are some good times. So take a good look around. You may not know it now. But you're gonna miss this

There are more verses, but you get the gist. I love this song and tear up every time I hear it. GOD spoke to me earlier in the year so powerfully through this song. So much of my life I have spent looking forward and wanting; as opposed to being content and living in the day.

When I was in college, I dreamed of graduation. When I was nannying before I went to Romania, my focus was the mission field. When I was overseas, my heart ached for home. And then when I got home, I started dreaming of where I will go next.

I hasn't been until the last year that I have really started to learn to be content. Not to say that I don't strive for progress, but until it happens, I am going to enjoy each day. I thank GOD for the place I'm in, which sounds simple, but I think too often so many of us are in such a hurry for the next thing.

The phrase "be an unanxious presence" comes to mind. We all know these people. Or rather, it is obvious and we notice when we are around the opposite. When we are surrounded by discontentment and anxiousness, we too tend to be anxious and discontent or unable to settle. But the fact is we are called to be unanxious and content (Philippians 4:6), which sounds so easy, but is a very hard discipline to learn.

Slowly GOD has been showing me through this song, the importance of realizing that every day is part of a stage of life that one day I will no longer be in, and I need to enjoy it and treasure it as such.

Do you realize that one day you will miss where you are right now? Does that change how you will love today?