Slow-motion Montage

You know when you are watching a feel-good movie and a song comes on, and the screen shows a montage of slow-motion scenes? Provoking every emotion that you have ever known to exist within you to all come to the surface at the exact same time. Overwhelmed but in a good way. You start to play your own scenes from your life in the same slow-motion form. Feeling tingly and amazed at the things that you have lived through and already conquered in your life. Then, feeling excited about the things that are yet to come. How is the rest of your story going to go? Then you realize this, this is LIFE!

The whole essence of it, the good and the bad. Can you remember the sting of the bad memories? Past resentments, confusion, and lostness you have felt? Even though, while you were in those moments you thought you were done, with no hope and no light at the end of the tunnel! Hurting so bad. So completely blinded by hopelessness there is no way you thought you could ever get past it. Then you realize that in this exact present moment you made it! You’re past it. You can appreciate that you are not there, you made it through, you survived. The word conquered…. really think about that.

If you would sit down with pen and paper and write down every obstacle you have overcome, every situation you made it through, or every devastating moment you have climbed your way out of in your entire life, you would realize you are your very own hero. God equipped you with the wisdom and strength to overcome. It is not a good feeling remembering all the hard stuff but it is crucial to reflect on to realize how far you’ve come.

God equipped us to handle the hard times in our past and he will do it again and again. Those disappointments and setbacks kept us from charting our own course and veering away from God. Now, think about the remarkable moments. When you are in the car by yourself and a song takes you to a special time, place or person from your past. Or when you visit a place that is filled with good memories. You get sentimental. You can feel what we did in that exact moment no matter when it took place. Smell the smells, feel the emotion, hear the sounds. Sometimes we ache for those moments. Be inspired by all the good you have experienced! Think of all the things that are going right and appreciate the absence of trouble in your life.

Recall your past victories. Embrace nostalgia. Get excited about the good things that are still yet to happen to you, that you will get to replay over and over for the rest of your life, those are YOUR memories. Hang on to that feeling. Play your own slow-motion montage in your head every time that special song comes on. Keep the inspiration. Be inspired by simple things. Be inspired by everything! Pursue it and let it lead you down whatever road it takes you. Look at the big picture. Be empowered! Each and everyone’s life is so delicate. All the good and bad woven together so intricately to form your very unique life with only experiences that you have felt had and learned from. The next time you are hit with a storm in your life, instead of thinking why is this happening to me, ask yourself, “what is this trying to teach me?”

Rely on the power of God, like you always have. Remember the lessons you learned from your past. Remember how you are an overcomer and embrace it! Soon enough it will just be another small part of your life’s story. Look beyond what you see, look at what God sees. One big slow-motion montage of all the good, bad, past, present, and future moments he puts together in this magnificent thing just for you called………LIFE.