SHIFT 40…Hello again and welcome. My name is Rick Williams and this is my 'Viajero' blog. That is a Spanish word that means 'traveler'. If you've yet to join me on my recent journey, I began on September 21st writing a ReFlection of my 32 year career in the Fire Service. On that day I had 50 shifts remaining in this field. With today's shift, as you can see, I'm down to forty. Wow!...My current thinking is that each shift that falls on a 'ten' number, that I will write about something that holds perhaps the most significance during my career. Please feel free to go back to my initial post to see what the path looked like from those beginnings in 1977 up the present and then through and toward my last shift early in 2013.
Here on the 'Forty' shift I'd like to keep it simple and leave you with a couple songs that have been instrumental (no pun intended) to me. The first song by Mark Harris, 'Line Between The Two'. "The years go by they seem to fly, they'll all be over soon. When our life is done did we live and love the way we wanted to. Cause every day that we leave behind goes on to tell the truth of how we lived in the line between the two." Our careers are just a small, though major part of that line. I look with anticipation at how the line continues into the next chapter of life. The second song is Blink by Revive. "It happens in a blink, it happens in a flash, it happens in the time it took to look back. I try to hold on tight, but there's no stopping time, what is it I've done with my life? It happens in a blink...it happens in a blink." Regardless of our career path...what is it that we've done with our lives? I try to make it a regular practice to evaluate this question. And I'm thankful for typically being able to see daily purpose. The last song by Brandon Heath says, "Give me Your eyes for just one second, give me Your eyes so I can see. Everything that I keep missing, give me Your love for humanity. Give me Your arms for the broken hearted that ones that are far beyond my reach. Give me Your Heart for the ones forgotten, give me Your eyes so I can see." It is so easy to 'miss' things...to 'miss' life. I so much desire to have His eyes, to live a life of greater simplicity that I may be available to see those in need around me and to affect their lives.
Might these songs and their messages powerfully connect and resonate in your lives as well. If you'd like, please tell me how they have.Until next shift...
Line Between The Two
Blink
Give Me Your Eyes
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