~ Please Return To Me ~

As I was opening my emails messages today,
one immediately jumped out and caught my eye
because of the title alone:

"Please Return To Me."

It was one of those many "chain emails"
of which you forward on to "10 people you know" for
good luck and then
return to the one who sent it to you.

I have been pondering the title ever since.
In my sometimes chaotic life, it is at times, a daily battle of keeping the
eternal perspective.
Frustrations, tempers, competing with the views of the world, expectations,
raising teenagers, peer pressure, finances, time speeding by ... etc. etc. etc ...
weaves a tapestry of excuses and justifications to just
give up.
Hands thrown in the air, with the question echoing right behind:
"why do I even try?"

But then it's moments - even minuscule simple moments such as these
with a title such as this
that reminds me of WHY I try. 
Armor back on, posture vertical, attitude adjusted, my stand firmly planted.

A fleeting moment of despair and quitting,
is quickly replaced as I remember
why
I am here.  And where I am striving to return,
not only after this life - but  now. 
Here and now in the moment while I am still alive and
breathing. 
While I am still living life, struggling at times, and enduring and conquering.
Here and now - this place - of seeing and returning to God before
my final return.

Eyes open, heart expands ... it is in the marrow, the deepest reaches of my soul, my fiber -
I remember.

As He gently beckons - even through a simple title -

"Please Return To Me."