They're all the same

Alright.. this is one of those moments in life where someone says something super simple (alliteration aside) and casual, but it becomes an epiphany to the listener, me.

I just got to work this morning, and went to the kitchen to grab some breakfast. Not eating breakfast works out famously being that I'm a) not a morning person and b) my company provides copious amounts of food, including the little Quaker Instant Oatmeal Express cups. Excellent.

This particular morning, I ran into my coworker Rob in the kitchen. Rob's a few years older than me, from Boston, and generally your typical nice Northerner. He mumbled something to me.

"Sorry, did you say something??"
Rob: "How are you?"

I open my oatmeal cup, pour some hot water over it, and throw it in the microwave for 25 seconds. Such a time saver, I think to my brilliant self.

"Oh, I'm good thanks. Just, you know... doing. And... living."

Good Lord, I can be awkward in the morning sometimes. Wasn't in think mode yet.

"How about you?"
Rob: "Oh, just another day. They're all pretty much the same anyway."

Annnd with that, he walks swiftly out the kitchen door and down the long, enclosed corridor to his office.

"Whoa," I'm thinking. What he said so nonchalantly struck me with a deeper realization of just this - I don't want to live my life thinking every day is pretty much the same. Sure, it can be pretty true in the work world. I've been blessed with some awesome co-workers who make the days a little sunnier on the inside of a white-walled, fluorescent-light building. But still.... isn't there something biblical about that? That there's more hope in life than every day being the same?

"Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day." 2 Corinthians 4:16

"The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases;
   his mercies never come to an end;
they are new every morning;
  great is your faithfulness."
- Lamentations 3:22-23

If even Lord's mercies are new every morning, and our spirits are renewed day by day, I feel like every day must be different, right? Not only different - that's kind of obvious for most people - but we ought to view each day differently. I say these things I want to view each day differently. I never want to lose hope or vision of that. I hope that you, if you're reading this, would never lose vision of that.

I'm turning 25 in a couple of days now, and fully believe the Lord is leading me through a sort of passionate quarter-life-crisis life evaluation. No, I won't say evaluation - perspective change. My perspective and my hopes are being challenged.

Is this what I want to be doing with my life? Is this where you have me, Lord? I trust that you are here, but what about these dormant passions in my heart? I pray that they will come alive, Lord. I'm starting to see more than ever that if it's alive in my heart, I was created in your hands for it. Make it a reality, Lord. But first, may hope become a reality. May I walk by faith with You into the places that are scary to ask for but exciting to see. Will you take my life and mold me, use it to glorify You, Father.