the point of it all?

Have you ever had a moment when you all of a sudden realize that there's got to be more to life than this?

I was driving down Hwy 100 today and for some reason it hit me. We spend all this money and time and effort on building these highways that criss-cross over what used to be a pristine, perfect earth filled with grass and trees and flowers and birds and animals. And instead we inlay the world with all this asphault. For what?

Or have you thought about how much time and energy we waste worrying about our love life or our friend life or our job or our house or our financial status only to realize that we're all going to end up in a funeral home and all of that worrying will make no impact on the world?

Does it ever hit you that we spend years and years of our life learning stuff so that we can spend years and years of our life working at something that doesn't last? Doesn't make an impact on someone's life?

I sat back and just wondered at all of that. Why are we rushing? Are we hoping to hurry along the end of our life? I believe 100% that we're here to bring glory to God...but shouldn't there be a bigger and better way to do it? Sometimes I feel like there should be a more important way to glorify Him.

Or maybe that's what it all comes down to: Figuring out how to glorify and love Him in the middle of this. This world that is filled with things that don't bring joy, this world that isn't perfect, this world that demands our attention, our worries, our energy, our life.