Chasing Frivolity!!!

Fiction.

Frivolous: Of little or no weight, worth, or importance (Dictionary Unabridged). Frovolity: the state of being frivolous.

Frivolity: Chasing something that is not worthy of utmost serious attention (mine)

Walking down 33rd street has become part of my daily ritual. It takes me down memory lane. I remember very vividly those sunny days that I and my sisters would hold hands and take a stroll, playing the walking game of who can match the footsteps of the others. Now I am twenty-eight and I still walk down these same paths, like I've never been down this road before.

I look up, squinting at the sun's rays. I reach the lake and bend down to pick up some pebbles. I fling two of them and some ripples start to form around the corner. The water is no longer the deep blue it once was, it is sad but it is still delightful to look at regardless. I sit down beside lake Ricoco and bend my legs inwards like those Yoga people at Troy shop do. I breathe in softly and sigh out loudly. When I was twenty I made some goals for myself. I wanted to be on top of the clouds. I wanted to have a private driveway for my Ferrari. A very long one. I wanted to live in the 20101 zip code. A distinct class by itself. I also remember writing the list. The big dream list.

A man who could look into my soul. Skin that would never age. An IQ that will never be conquered. A house powered by solar energy. A private island just for my family. Connections to powerful presidents and senators. Sole ownerships of industries and factories. Oh, just to name a few. I thought long and hard at the frivolities of life. I wondered about how hard the chase was. And I almost gave myself a pat on the back. Here I was at twenty-eight, a self-accomplished entrepreneur with a husband that I loved with all my heart and kids that were adorable...

But considering all my accomplishments and more, I considered that I am nothing without God. The full satisfaction I have now only came when I had that surprising encounter with God. I was walking down this same road just as other times when I broke down. The experience was phenomenal. Suddenly all those other things I had been chasing for almost a decade became small in my eyes while my view of God became zoomed in. I considered that the reason why we accomplish these things is only really to show-case the abundance of the kingdom of God, to be lenders and not borrowers, and to save the lost. Every other reason becomes of little or no weight, worth or importance. Frivolous!!!

He who tills his land will be satisfied with bread,
But he who follows frivolity is devoid of understanding...(Proverbs 12:11)

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