What Does Your Life Add Up To?

I have been listening to a lot of Mumford and Son’s recently. If you are not familiar with this group, they are a folk/banjo/pop group with a singer that sounds like a mixture between Dave Mathews and Kermit the Frog. I mean that with all the respect in the world.

There’s a line in one of their songs that says “where you invest your love, you invest your life.” This has been dancing through my head for a couple of days now, and I think it has a lot of good meaning. So often we think our life is about what we do for a living or what kind of car we drive. We think of our investments in terms of a house or a stock portfolio. But if we looked at our time the same way we looked at our money, we might have a different definition of investment. If we realized that time is our most valuable resource, and that once it is spent it can never be returned, we might use it differently. We might be willing to love more, to give more, to risk more because we knew that this was the real stuff of life.

To my family and friends that are reading this, know that you are my life. I have loved you, invested my time with you, cried with you, laughed with you, and as a result you are more of me than any car or house or promotion. The reason that I do everything I do is because God has loved me, and I want to share that love with you. My life doesn’t add up to the things I own or the diplomas on my wall. It adds up to the love that I have given away to the wonderful people that God has blessed my life with.