I have to say it's odd. I've gotten in such a habit of waking up at 5am and reading scripture and writing about it and praying, that I'm looking forward to my next adventure. I hope I can do this and really live the Gospels. I can't imagine the type of joy that will be brought to my life. Looking back it has changed so much in the last 10 months already. I've been bak at Amedisys for almost 4 months already and sometimes, most days in fact, it seems that I never left. It's fun to think about the last year. I could have never in my wildest dreams have told you that I would be doing what I'm doing and be where I am right now. Carey never wanted to build a house. I am blessed to know that we an afford it and it will be next door to his best friends. I say it often, that I am so blessed. Claire has been THE MOST AMAZING and JOYFUL blessed that could have ever been given to us. She was so good in mass yesterday, my heart is just overwhelmed.
I want to take this question and turn it around just a bit. "What if?" "What if it keeps getting better?" It can.
The question that is being asked is "What if everything that Jesus talks about in the Gospels is true?" "What if we really do need to account for the life we have lived?" I'll be writing the what if letter, I just have to remind myself to do it.
POINT TO PONDER:
The chances of it all being true are very high.
VERSE TO LIVE: "Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Let your good spirit lead me on a level path." PSALM 143:10
QUESTION TO CONSIDER:
If you were dying, would you be paying more attention to your spiritual health than you are today?
I am proud to say that I in a way think that I wouldn't, however I believe we can always do things better and it doesn't hurt to try new things, new way to be stronger and build on our current relationship with God. So I change my mind already. I think that I would be paying more attention to my spiritual life, but I would be doing it in a different way. To be quite honest, who wouldn't pay more attention? I mean even if a certain part of life changes, we'd slightly (or maybe greatly) change the way we pray and where our focused prayerful intention would be placed. A new perspective is always helpful and allows us to redefine what it is that moves us to prayer, what moves us to take action in our faith, work, marriage and what guides our thoughts and decisions. Our faith journey should be all about working toward being able to answer this question with a proud and strong, confident, "NO."
If we knew we would die in a year how would we change our life? Mr. Kelly said "why wait?" Why can't we start living our life like we only have a year left. There are a lot of things I'd like to squeeze into the next year. It goes by so quickly.
PRAYER:
JESUS, guide my words, thoughts, actions so that I can live my best self and become the best-version-of-myself.
I am mad at myself for not "resting" on Sunday so that I could spend Holy Week finishing out this devotion. That's why I missed a few days. I have two more and so I'll finish up on Wednesday which is the last day before HOLY WEEK. This is such an exciting time in the lives of Christians. I get excited just thinking about it.
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