A Seven-Minute Show and a Two-Second Life
Call time was 4:30 for the dress rehearsal, and by the time I arrived, the room was buzzing with talkative girls and sizzling curling irons. I stood in line to get my hair poofed on the top of my head and then curled underneath. I lathered up my face in blush, eye shadow, eye liner, and sparkles. I applied a dazzling headband to accent the hair poof and some fake eyelashes to make my eyes pop. I slipped on panty hose, costume, mary jane shoes, and white gloves as the finishing touch. Then I went to work curling another girls' hair, pinning safety pins on another girls' dress, and tieing a pearl necklace (made out of marshmellows...we had a low budget) around another girls' neck. It was a team effort to get 150 girls lookin' this good.
When we were all finally ready, we suddenly realized that Spring Sing 2011 was upon us. We have worked hours upon hours for this performance. Since January, we have been practiced choreography and music for our show, which is a musical parody about housewives titled "Once Upon a Sitcom". With our 60's style dresses, aprons, and poofy hairstyles in place, it began to sink in that we were about to perform in full costume for the first time!
So I just spent three and a half hours getting ready for a seven-minute stage performance. Not to mention the hours of rehearsals that we already had throughout the semester. Why spend three and a half hours doing hair and makeup for only seven minutes on stage? Because that is the fun and crazy nature of Spring Sing! Go big, and have the time of your life doing it.
Also consider this: our lives here on earth are like a "chasing after the wind" as Solomon would put it. Life is like a blip on the radar, a split-second worth of time. We all know that life is short, a fleeting moment in the grand scheme of things. It is a two-second flash in light of eternity.
Our two seconds of life on earth is preparation for our infinite amount of time spent in eternity after death. Louis Giglio said at the Passion conference, "I want to be able to say, 'I am so thankful I lived my 2 seconds on earth for the name that is above every name! Not for any other meaningless name.'" For when we live for Christ during our two-second lifespan on this earth, to die is gain. In death, we enter into the fullest life possible because we abide with Christ and reign with Him in His kingdom. Forever!
If three and a half hours worth of prep makes a seven-minute show worthwhile, then you better believe that living this two-second life abandoned for Christ makes the rest of eternity absolutely amazing. If we joyfully worked three and half hours to make a seven-minute show happen, then how much more joyful should we be as we serve and obey Jesus Christ for this two-second life, for it is preparation for an eternity of full life!
It might be kind of crazy to spend so many hours on a seven-minute production, but it is not crazy to live your entire life, this blip in time, in order to have the fullest life after death. Really, it would be crazy not to.
When we were all finally ready, we suddenly realized that Spring Sing 2011 was upon us. We have worked hours upon hours for this performance. Since January, we have been practiced choreography and music for our show, which is a musical parody about housewives titled "Once Upon a Sitcom". With our 60's style dresses, aprons, and poofy hairstyles in place, it began to sink in that we were about to perform in full costume for the first time!
So I just spent three and a half hours getting ready for a seven-minute stage performance. Not to mention the hours of rehearsals that we already had throughout the semester. Why spend three and a half hours doing hair and makeup for only seven minutes on stage? Because that is the fun and crazy nature of Spring Sing! Go big, and have the time of your life doing it.
Also consider this: our lives here on earth are like a "chasing after the wind" as Solomon would put it. Life is like a blip on the radar, a split-second worth of time. We all know that life is short, a fleeting moment in the grand scheme of things. It is a two-second flash in light of eternity.
Our two seconds of life on earth is preparation for our infinite amount of time spent in eternity after death. Louis Giglio said at the Passion conference, "I want to be able to say, 'I am so thankful I lived my 2 seconds on earth for the name that is above every name! Not for any other meaningless name.'" For when we live for Christ during our two-second lifespan on this earth, to die is gain. In death, we enter into the fullest life possible because we abide with Christ and reign with Him in His kingdom. Forever!
If three and a half hours worth of prep makes a seven-minute show worthwhile, then you better believe that living this two-second life abandoned for Christ makes the rest of eternity absolutely amazing. If we joyfully worked three and half hours to make a seven-minute show happen, then how much more joyful should we be as we serve and obey Jesus Christ for this two-second life, for it is preparation for an eternity of full life!
It might be kind of crazy to spend so many hours on a seven-minute production, but it is not crazy to live your entire life, this blip in time, in order to have the fullest life after death. Really, it would be crazy not to.
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