You've Got Mail

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"Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you. Ponder the path of your feet; then all your ways will be sure."

Proverbs 4:25-26, ESV

I love my boy. He's really the sweetest, snuggliest, most fun little critter.

But not the brightest. No, definitely not the brightest.

Recently on one of our early morning walks, Squirrel became so distracted by a fox crossing our path that he walked straight into a mailbox. It sounded like a giant gong.

I'd like to tell you this sweet and loving dog mama immediately became empathetic and concerned but honestly...

I laughed my head off.

Oh sure, I made sure he was okay first, but it was hilarious. Served him right, harassing that poor fox and about ripping my arm off.

It's easy to become distracted by the inconsequential. We allow the little things to take up so much of our vision, we began to believe they are the whole world.

That's become our new saying to each other at work during this stressful season. "It's just not that important."

When we're all hyperventilating over an ask from the Senior VP, demanding the impossible in an even more impossible timeframe: "It's just not that important."

When someone starts to cry because an exec ripped apart a briefing she spent hours - hours she didn't have to spare - to fulfill a last minute ask: "It's just not that important."

Because really...it's not. In a few years, our program will be done and since we work in tech, our program will already be obsolete pretty much the day we close it out.

So what is important? Honoring God and bringing his kingdom here. Loving our neighbors. Seeking justice for the oppressed. Finding God in the big and the little. Trusting Him in both, too.

The rest are just foxes, distracting us from the mission. So keep you eyes on Jesus and avoid walking into mailboxes.

Your head will thank you.