Genesis 48 (Don't Miss the Important Things)

Someone told me once that our fingers wouldn't work properly if we didn't have fingernails.
I guess that was a reference to holding things or gripping things.
I often find my fingernails annoying.
They catch on things.
They keep growing.
Stuff gets stuck in them.
I guess the same could be for toenails.
Without them we would struggle to hold things?
Thinking about it. (Who knows why I would, except I just typed something about it?)
But I would feel a bit ripped off if I was a toenail.
The glamorous fingernails with their hoity toity airs and polishes.
They're always on show, waving around.
They fit perfectly into nasal cavities.
Not like toenails.
Toenails hardly ever get a chance to enjoy the warm recesses of a nostril.
They get shoved into a sock and hidden in a shoe.
And that's not the worst of it either.
No one ever, ever complains of hand odour!
No wonder they curl a bit.
Not straight and smooth like a fingernail.
Poor toenails.


Genesis 48
In the busyness of life at the top, Joseph took time to visit his dying father.
He took his sons and spent time with him.
It's what we do in the moments that matter that stay with us.
These days it is easy to get caught up in being busy.
Family commitments.
Work commitments.
Other commitments.
Commitment commitments.
Which is okay to some degree.
I think you need some balance.
If you keep putting out and not taking in, you'll run out of something.
Then you have nothing to put out any more.

Joseph recognised the importance in stopping what he was doing and doing something that mattered not just to his father, but also to his sons and himself.
Don't miss the things in your life that matter.
Especially if you miss them because you're too busy doing something else that may not matter.
It is easy to let these things drive you and then you'll regret what you've missed later.

Joseph hears that God will be with him, from someone that knows what that means.
Even if you know it, it can't hurt to hear it again.