Looking forward

Looking forward is a key to happy healthy living. We need to see what is coming. We need to anticipate changes and patterns. We need to plan for highs and lows along the way. The Bible says , "without a vision the people parish." And I think, people need to have hopes. Things they look forward to and things they learn to deal with which no matter how unpleasant because these things will come.
But today I was pondering, "getting your hopes up." So let us press on toward the goal and look forward to the great things in store for us. Have you ever thought about the fact that we talk about things ahead as being, "in store?" It is a good way to describe the future. Because as we anticipate the future we store up things in our hearts, we behave in certain ways and these behaviors create patterns, these patterns then become the growth which brings forth fruit and it is on the fruit we dine in life. It is the fruit, and fattened calves, and aged wine, that make up the feast we all look forward to in the end. So we need to look to the feast and pull up the weeds, carry the grain to the cattle, tread on the grapes, and wait. Wait while we work for in due time we will reap a harvest if we don't give up. but let us look forward to the harvest while we work for it will cheer us in the hot sun and the pouring rain. Today we work for tomorrow we feast.