people

Some of my favorite days of my life are the ones spent with people I love. I don't know exactly when I consciously made a decision, but a while ago I decided that people are the most important things in life. These are other humans made in the image of God, and loved fully by him. They are his treasures, surpassing even the beauty of a rose in full bloom or the awe-inspiring vastness of the universe he created. These flawed, sinful creatures, created from dust, to one day die and return to dust, but with life breathed into them from the very mouth of God, are considered by God to be the ultimate beauty of his creation.

So to me it's more important to spend an hour going to Wal-mart and then to Target with Lauren because Wal-mart didn't sell the appropriate size bow to decorate her present of the DVD of Bolt for her boyfriend than to spend an hour working on homework for my English class. It's more important to discuss heroes and chocolate bunnies with Dave and people who drop by than to get the Overflow attendance recorded fast. It's more important to get up at 4:50 a.m. on World Changers to study the Bible with Grace than to get some much-needed sleep for the busy day of physical labor ahead. It's more important to spend the evening at Chick-fil-a with Chelsea discussing songs with the name Lauren in them, carnivals, my "outdated" cell phone and American Idol instead of staying at home typing something up. All these things are more important because they involve people. Technically, I guess, these things aren't as productive as their alternatives would have been. But, I think that in God's eyes, they were more important in light of eternity.