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| Reflections for Your Journey |
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In the Fullness of Time
One of the reasons we find it difficult to slow down is that
we have not become convinced of the need for things to
occur "in the fullness of time."
We feel there is so much to accomplish and so few years
in which to do it all that we've become addicted to instant
everything.
It probably started with instant mashed potatoes!
Now there's instant food at drive-through windows, instant cash
from an ATM, instant credit from all manner of stores, and
instant information available online.
We have lost the ability to let life unfold in its own time. ...
by Renée Miller
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| Be a Blessing |
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The challenge for our time is to affirm religious truth
without
defining it for others.
Each religion claims it has the truth, but talk is cheap and no
theology is foolproof.
Each religion proves whether or not it is genuine by showing
how its adherents live. ...
Our goal each year during Lent, or in Judaism, during the
High
Holidays, is to make our faith shine through again--to
show
that we are wearing genuine rings of faith by how we live, act,
and reflect the Divine image. ...
by Rabbi Micah Greenstein
--from Be a Blessing
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| God's Footprints |
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Your way was through the sea,
your path,
through the mighty waters;
yet your footprints were unseen.
Psalm 77:19 ...
Maybe you are overwhelmed now, either with physical
problems, emotional problems, or with a life that seems
completely out of control.
Psalm 77 reminds us that, invited or
not, God is with us, leaving footprints that we will recognize
when we look back and reflect on it.
God's footprints come in many shapes and sizes:
- a friend who says exactly what we need to hear
- a book or sermon that seems to have been written just for
us
- or a question someone asks us that breaks opens our
hearts
Whatever circumstances you have been through or may be
in,
look around. I'll bet you will see some footprints you haven't
noticed before.
Don't be surprised if you get a lump in your throat.
When you
realize how near God is, it's enough to make you cry - for joy!
by Margaret Jones
--from
Signposts Daily Devotions: Mar. 25, 2006
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