No Hollywood Here

Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked. Psalm 84:10 NIV

Hollywood glamorizes the high life. Money. Fame. Big houses. Fancy cars. But besides money, it all comes with a price. Multiple marriages. Addiction. Families torn apart. It's all fun and games until you find out there's a price that must be paid in the end. There are some examples of Hollywood done right, but those don't sell tabloids. It may look like crime pays, and some may even get away with it for a while, but at some point they'll lose it all.

More subtly we may be presented with situations every day. A co-worker asks us to lie for them. We do something wrong or cross someone to promote ourselves. We are given extra change back and just keep it, or walk out of the store forgetting to pay for the bag of ice on the bottom of the cart and not going back in. I'd rather pay for that ice than to know I deliberately left without paying.

I'd rather go through life with a few less "things" knowing my reward is in heaven. Life is in the details and sunsets and quiet times and babies and small blessings and family and friends and that bill that gets paid.

God is in everything and because he's in everything I want to be with him.