So, I was doing my devotions tonight, and to be honest, this is the first time I've done them in a very long time. But I feel like my relationship with Jesus is lacking..more like we're just aquaintances instead of best friends, which is what I long for. So I'm doing my best to just dive into Him, and learn all that I possibly can. 

Anyways...

As I was reading, I came across a set of verses that were familiar to me from years of Sunday School and youth groups... found in Colossian 1:19-20:

From beginning to end he's there, towering far above everything, everyone.  So spacious is he, so roomy, that everything of God finds its proper place in him without crowding.  Not only that, but all the broken and dislocated pieces of the universe- people and things, animals and atoms- get properly fixed and fit together in vibrant harmonies, all because of his death, his blood that poured down from the cross.

What really gets me is where is says that all the brokenness in this world, every broken person, every broken situation, everything fits together in "vibrant harmonies."  That phrase alone is enough to give chills. 

I think it's time to stop looking at things in our world as permanently damaged, broken, or messed up. It says that these things are properly fixed and fit together.  We so often read of doing the right things, and loving unconditionally, and doing simple acts of kindness.... well, I think it's about time we stop reading and thinking about these things, and time we start actually doing them. It says later in Colossians 2:6-7:

My counsel for you is simple and straightforward: Just go ahead with what you've been given.  You received Christ Jesus, the Master; now live him.  You're deeply rooted in him.  You're well constructed upon him.  You know your way around the faith.  Now do what you've been taught.  School's out; quit studying the subject and start  living it! And let your living spill over into thanksgiving.

My goal this week is to live Christ's love out.  To see things in the eyes of my Father.