Getting There

In the end, it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all. ~ Sarah Dessen as Re-tweeted by The Single Woman


Really?  The only thing that matters is that you "get there?"  I suppose it depends how you look at each situation...

If you're willing to use the excuse of "getting there" to trample on others, hurt people, take advantage of their short-falls and think only of yourself that's not ok at all!  I implore you, if "getting there" is your excuse to be self centered change it immediately!  There should be no valid excuse for a lifestyle of self-absorption and hindrance of people around you.  That way of "excuse thinking" is why our world is in the position it is... "I just want to be able to move faster, to get there, to get this cash forget about the effect it will have on the people around me or generations following."  Not only is this "excuse thinking" not acceptable but you also have to remember what some people call Karma before you act... That negative effect your actions are having on others will eventually be turned back on you. 

A bit of a post script on what they call Karma: I call God and the Bible backs me up on this Galatians 5:14 "...Love others as you love yourself. That's an act of true freedom. If you bite and ravage each other, watch out—in no time at all you will be annihilating each other, and where will your precious freedom be then?", James 2:8 "...Love others as you love yourself. But if you play up to these so-called important people, you go against the Rule and stand convicted by it...", Luke 10:27 "...love your neighbor as well as you do yourself." Psalm 4:6 "...those who went off with heavy hearts will come home laughing, with armloads of blessing!" Proverbs 22:8 "Whoever sows sin reaps weeds, and bullying anger sputters into nothing!"

On the other hand, if you flip the meaning of this quote and break it down it becomes a mission statement to live by!  "In the end," the end of life... "it's not how you reach a place that matters." Where is it you want to end up? Well, you want to end UP, yes, pun intended: you want to make it to heaven! "Just that you get there at all."  No matter what we must endure throughout our lifespan Heaven, with Jesus, is where we are going and it's worth anything just to "get there!"  Mark 4:30 "How can we picture God's kingdom? What kind of story can we use?..." Romans 8:18-21 "That's why I don't think there's any comparison between the present hard times and the coming good times. The created world itself can hardly wait for what's coming next. Everything in creation is being more or less held back. God reins it in until both creation and all the creatures are ready and can be released at the same moment into the glorious times ahead. Meanwhile, the joyful anticipation deepens!" Philippians 3:7-9 "...all the things I once thought were so important ... Compared to the high privilege of knowing Christ Jesus as my Master, firsthand, everything I once thought I had going for me is insignificant... I've dumped it all in the trash so that I could embrace Christ and be embraced by him..." 

Nothing compares to just "getting there!"  All in all, don't get caught up in all the mess of your current circumstances, get caught up in where you're going and do all just to "get there!"