Back to the Future - Reimagined

2015.

Here we begin a new year and one that find myself hopeful for what may be in store for us.  This is the year that Marty McFly time-traveled to in the second Back to the Future movie made in 1989.  What was imagined by the writers has come to fruition.  Well, some of it anyway.

Google Glass is very similar to the device worn by Marty's daughter to answer the phone.  Hover boards do exist (google it).  We use a thumbprint to unlock our screens on the smart phones.  Our world is dominated by flat screen televisions with multiple channels (still nothing on!).  We can make video calls (but who does that anymore?).

But, we still don't have flying cars or power-tying shoes.  We could only imagine so much in 1989.





As I thought about this, I thought back to who I was in 1989.  I was a senior in high school.  I was making plans to attend college and I had life planned out.  I was a secret party girl that year, often ditching school to party with my friends.  Even though I was caught and suspended from school for skipping (does that really make sense?), I was able to graduate high school and continue on to college.  I had planned to get my MBA and become a young CEO of some large fortune 500 company.  I had planned to get married and have kids and a corvette (1969 Stingray).  I had many hopes.

But, I was not a believer.  As 1989 continued through 1990, I found my current path coming up empty.  I was lost, looking for love, looking for fulfillment, believing that the next thing coming would be the "thing" that would fill my soul.  My good friend led me to the Lord later in 1990, and found what I was looking for all along.

I became a special education teacher and found how much love the kids had.  I did get married, and I did have a child, as I imagined, but I am not a CEO and I have no Corvette Stingray.  Life is good, but life is not what I imagined it would be in 1989.

My priorities have changed.  I now think about what God would have me do.  I believe all things have a purpose and are part of God's design.  However, sometimes, especially lately, I forget this and I begin to focus on the negative things.

As I begin 2015, I am going to skip past all the traditional resolutions, and resolve to dwell closer to God.  I want to hear His voice, and not the voices of negativity in my mind.  I don't want to fall back into that nasty habit of complaining and forgetting to be thankful.  I want to think about all the good things God has in mind for us as we move into the next 26 years of our lives.

"For I know the plans I have for you," says the Lord.  "They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and I hope.  In those days when you pray, I will listen.  If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me." ~Jeremiah 29:11-13