Get over the sun

I recently bought the new shane and shane album on itunes (itunes makes the world small), and currently have the song Over the Sun stuck in my head. It's about a guy who is sitting with a wise old friend and he asks the wise friend, "Let me know what you have found under the sun." And the friend replies, "Get over the sun, where life is hidden." It is a great reminder that life here on earth is so fleeting, so short and can be so materialist and selfish. I want to have a heaven perspective, to live over the sun where the true life is hidden.

My freshman year of college I remember getting this picture in my head of my body just being a shell and inside was hollow, a place housing this light inside of me that bounced around -- that is who I am. I am not a 5'4" girl with dark hair and turquoise blue tonails with fish painted on them (when you get a pedicure once a month, you get bored, o.k.?), thats just the body that moves me around this earth. Which will get old, wrinkled and die. I am a life that belongs to Christ in heaven. Wow, I wish I had that perspective daily -- how differnetly would I go through my day... I probably wouldnt have fish painted on my toes.

I am so thankful that my life isn't based on earth and the things that it has to offer, or I would be depressed. What the world has to offer is pretty hopeless, living weekend to weekend for joy, doing empty good deeds. Life is so rich over the sun, so full, so complete. My heart breaks for people who only live under the sun.

Yea, I have my bad days (even though some don't believe it). Days when I look at the earthly cards placed before me and it looks drab. When a day doesn't go as planned, or another hour goes by where I sit and drink coffee alone, or when the scale says a number that I didn't want it to say. That's when the Lord reminds me that there is life to the full over the sun.

http://www.myspace.com/shaneandshane if you want to listen to the song