Keep Your Fork

I was going to write about this a while ago and forgot about until my friend asked me why I had a sticky note on my desktop that said "keep your fork."

It's a cute story, actually. And I have an unnatural obsession with anecdotes (mostly because they tend to put things in perspective).

So there was this little girl who grew up in the South. So every time her and her family were at an event it was centered around food (cause that's how we work in the South). And after they ate her mother would always tell her to keep her fork because something better was coming. Well we ALL know what that means! DESSERT!

So this little girl grew up and learned to always keep her fork because after she ate her "good food" she knew that something better, and sweeter, was coming.

Well every one has to die at some point. But when she did she said she wanted to be buried with a fork in her hands! When the preacher asked why she simply said "because the best is yet to come."

I get chill bumps just typing about it! But seriously, why don't we live like that? Everything we do seems to make the world hang in the balance. But this is just or meat and potatoes. The best is yet to come! So don't lose heart (that's a whole other can of worms!), but if you lose heart you have nothing to live for.

What I'm living for is dessert. Because it will be by ten million times better than the life I'm living now. Why? Because I get to spend every single waking moment for the rest of eternity praising my God and King who was and is and is to come!