Contentment

I got everything i wanted for Christmas, as i probably stated before. Among all the fancy new toys was a Verizon Chocolate V Cast phone. It's beautiful with a nice maroon finish. The top part (the part that isn't the number pad) is the neatest thing since sliced bread. It's like a touch screen computer! You don't even have to press down. I am currently the owner of a vintage, two and a half year old unbreakable phone. The problem is that it ran out of memory about 6 months ago. No pictures, no receiving of texts with pictures, 2 minutes for it to store the phone number, as you can see, i clearly needed a new phone. I was so excited about my new toy that I stayed up Christmas night and spent a couple hours transferring my contact list and learning about all the new features. How excited I was to have a phone nice enough to get new songs on it from that fancy feature I have only heard people speak of- blue tooth. Well, just to say once again, as far as i can tell, it's the perfect phone for me. How useful it will be in bringing me into the 2008th year. Well, that's what I thought at the time. The long awaited night after Christmas arrived. My sister called to activate my new phone. Everything was going as planned, I would finally have a phone that hadn't quite had time to become obsolete. She asked for my phone package and started reading the numbers off of the package. It was all going fine... until there was an F at the end of the bar code instead of a number. How could it be? My brand new phone having to go back to the store after all the time spent putting numbers into it and personalizing all the settings. I guess I learned something out of this whole ordeal. Maybe something along the lines of don't count your chickens before they hatch. Perhaps that I should be content with what I have. Every new phone becomes out dated in less than a month, every new computer probably just as quickly. Even houses built to stand fall in. It's strange to think that each house falling apart in a field somewhere used to be some body's dream house. I was reminded of the importance of building on something that will stand. The things of this earth fade away although not quite as quickly as technology becomes outdated. I spent a lot of time typing that stuff in to find out that that time had become worthless and irreplaceable overnight. I could have spent it building on the solid foundation. Christ lasts. So do his words. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. The things of this earth shall pass away. I guess I need to remember that the next time I feel like wasting a bunch of time, or even a little. Live each moment for God as though it could be your last here on earth. How different this world would be if we actually lived by that.