Time is flying by. Today has me at 75yo, plus one month.
Therefore, I am taking an olde man's liberty of putting down random thoughts on the first Wednesday of every month as I live into the future that our wild and loving God is giving to me. Facebook will cover more of the daily briefs, happenings. But I want to give some thoughts to share from this journey I've been given...into eternity.......whenever that may take place.
I've been under some conviction, often this year, in how I do not love well...when I'm thinking I am. I can function some times with a quiet, yet unacceptable pride, in thinking I'm doing more than that "other person," so why aren't they shaping up?
Ugh. The arrogance to that.
And yet, I have to own the fact that I can judge others, draw conclusions too quickly, and not see them with all the hope and potential that our Triune God sees them. Whether quietly or openly, my hope for today, and tomorrow, and the days after that, rests fully in the quiet, yet profound, fact that God loves me, no matter what.......and others...no matter what...even you.
Amazingly...I am asked to do the same...if love is to be genuine...life-giving...life-changing...no matter what. I cannot go back over my 75 years and "re-love," or "retool" past actions. I can, even must ask for forgiveness for when I have not loved well.
We've all been betrayed, hurt, wounded in some form...mild to severe. But even those folks I've been called to love...which can only take place as I forgive them.
Living looking in the rear view mirror of our life does not free us to live forward, to live well into all we were each designed to be...and to do with our lives. How many days do I have left here on this planet? I've no clue. But this I do know, I will continue to hope forward, to live forward, to nurture/mentor others forward, to be as full of love for others as possible...to be fully alive until we breathe no more.
I hope you will join me in that. Now...take some deep breaths and join me in being as fully alive as possible...whatever your current circumstances.
Be blessed...........!
...and be a blessing where others least expect it!!!
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