"Why doesn't the world stop?"

2 nights ago, I was thinking this while I looked over the night-life of Austin bustling around 8 floors below the hospital window. Why when tragedy happens does the rest of the world not ache with you?

Let me explain. Friday evening my roommate was in a bicycle accident. She has several fractures in her skull, 5 fractured vertebrae and a broken clavicle. Her injuries could be far worse and God protected her in many ways, but what she is currently living through is still a tragedy. Temporarily life-altering, permanently emotionally and spiritually altering.

Through this, I am beginning to see the emptiness of this world. What do we have if we do not have Christ? Everything can be changed in a moment. One moment you are riding your bike down a hill, the next moment you are lying on the ground in a pool of your own blood. Everything is fleeting. I have been ignorant to how true that is. I have known God is all I need and that He is the only thing that is lasting, but never fully believed it with my entire being. But now, I have been rocked to the core and my soul groans for solid ground. I mourn the ways I have traded everlasting for fleeting. My heart aches for His touch. My soul longs for Whom it was created. I yearn for eternity with Him. I have lived my life as though myself and those around me are invincible. How stupid I have been.

²²Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from the heart. ²³For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. ²⁴For, "All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, ²⁵but the word of the Lord stands forever." And this is the word that was preached to you. 1 Peter 1: 22-25