Vintage

I've come to realize the greatest moments of my life have been great because of their quality and not their length. A word that comes to mind is "vintage". Some people use the word to mean "old" but it doesn't just mean that. It really conveys something as "Classic, prized, and stylish".

It's kind of like buying an old car. There are a bunch of old cars I could save up to buy if I wanted to do so. If I spent a few thousand on a 1984 Oldsmobile some might wonder what the heck I was thinking. However, if I saved up and bought a 1969 Mach 1 Mustang (Pretty much the sweetest car ever!) no one would question my taste despite it being a much older vehicle.

Many times I have been outside at sunset. Tonight I taught my son how to play baseball as the sun faded in the background casting an orange hue onto everything outside. Watching him laugh as he hit the ball and "line-drived" me and then me picking him up and pretending to throw him in the back of my truck for it is forever etched into my brain. I've seen many sunsets. Most I will not remember. I remember that one though. Like a vintage car stands out from the rest as being memorable, tonight sticks in my brain because the quality of it.

That's what I think about life. I want my time on earth to not just waste away but be spent in the best quality possible. By quality I don't mean to refer to financial quality but relational quality. Let my days be filled with peace and not drama. Let my obstacles make my victories sweeter and my enemies become the fuel to ignite my heart with passion to do and to be more! At the end let me look back on this life and say I left nothing undone and I put it all on the table.

When my time comes let it not be thought of as just another soul moving on but a soul that was made fully alive. One of my favorite movie lines is from the movie Braveheart which says, "Every man dies, Not every man truly lives".