4/30/2023 0 Comments Blessed are the undistracted![]() He would go to the work like the rest of us, he assures us, but for those killer cats. We hear his voice crying out from his bed, “There is a lion outside! I shall be killed in the streets!” (Proverbs 22:13 26:13). The traditional sluggard does not begin tasks at all. But looking back, I have realized in my work life that I have lived too often as a sophisticated sloth. No one would have looked at me and said I sleep too much, or that I neglected my studies, or that I put off difficult things indefinitely. What hid this realization from me for so long is that I never thought of myself as slothful. This is especially true when I consider time lost while at work - how much good that might have outlasted me has been forfeit by my laziness and inattention? When I awake to the value of time, the sheer possibility held in any given span, I sigh at how many moments have fallen irretrievably between the cracks - and this sends me to God for more mercy and help to better steward the time I have left. ![]() While not leaving the good news behind - namely that this neglect will not have the last word, but his grace will - the healthy sting is still felt. ![]() So many silver coins squandered exchanged for pebbles and bubbles. Hours upon hours, gone without notice, lost without grief. I perplex myself, then, to consider how many golden moments I let pass, wasted. How different from the dreary drift from one meal to the next, one episode to the next, one year to the next.ĭo you feel the preciousness of time? Are you truly living? A hand hold with a spouse or a wait in line at the store can take on new significance when we consider it occurs within this shooting star we call “life.” Good I Could Have Done Oh, to sail under the stars awake to life, feeling the breeze upon your face and hearing the music of waves crashing. Could you imagine the quality of those five years becoming preferable? Could five years more alive to God, his world, and the faces around us outshine decades of business and bluster with little fullness? I mean to live wide awake, live purposefully, live undistracted by empty pleasures. If you were told you had five years to live, would you live more in those five years than in the decades you might have had left?īy “live” I cannot mean “lifespan,” or the question isn’t worth asking.
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