djByron [Dan Byron]husband, father, christian, musician & technophile ( but not a dj )

This morning I had the strangest experience.  I was in that moment between being asleep and waking up for the day when I had a ‘vision’ so-to-speak.  A mini dream lasting just a couple seconds that vividly etched itself into my memory. I saw a ‘folder’ being created (almost like creating a new folder on one’s computer) with today’s date stamped on it.  It’s hard to translate the ‘weirdness’ that followed.  Almost like the feeling when the character Neo in the movie The Matrix realizes he was nothing more than part of the system.

I sat there for a while just thinking.  I’m so very happy right now and I know my life has meaning, but this was just really really weird.  A visual representation of a day in my life as nothing more than a folder with a date on it.  I thought back to a sermon I’d heard growing up about how our lives are compared to a vapor (James 4:14).  That message was preached probably 15+ years ago and yet it seems like just yesterday.  And not only did those years fly by, but to know God has every event that happened during those years filed away in ‘folders’ for future reference. The good, the bad and the ugly.

So what do I take from this?

I want what’s kept in todays ‘folder’ to matter.  I want every action to count.  I want it to be worth remembering.  And I DON’T want to regret what’s inside today’s folder wishing that somehow it could be deleted.

Has anything like this ever happened to you?