Greetings Dear Reader,
I realize we are several months away from resolutions and
weight loss plans. We are also on the
back side of summer where we ponder the things we wanted to do but did
not. We vow we will do them next
summer. None of them happen if we do not
do them.
One of the things we must do is to turn the not yet into
already. Some things take planning,
funding, and execution. Some things
require that we begin them. Summer plans
must wait until summer but may need planning in the previous fall. Some things require the moment. It is the latter that we must never relegate “maybe
next year.”
Part of embracing the already is using each moment to follow
Christ more closely. No matter the cost
or pain we must abandon the things that hinder the journey. No matter the challenge or difficulty we must
be better today than yesterday. I
already need to do better but I am not there yet.
I can plan that vacation for next summer. I can dream of things I want to do and
become. I can imagine and visualize. None of that matters if I do not make the
internal things already. I must continually
build on the progress I have already made to get to the place in following
Christ that I have not yet achieved.
Living in the already, even in changing what needs changing,
means the I see and act on the now and never say maybe tomorrow, later, or
next year. It means I live in the moment. I live in the already to shape the not yet.
Magic
Every Moment – Dan Fogelberg
I awoke this morning to a shattering sound
And I went downstairs and found these shards of glass strewn
all around
There upon the floor I found this poor broken dove
And it made me realize how very fragile is this life that we
so love
I came back up to bed and I held you so tight
And I prayed up to the Father, oh I prayed with all my might
That He'd always keep you with me, that He'd always keep you
safe
And when I went downstairs I found that dove had somehow up
and flown away
There's a magic every moment
There's a miracles each day
There's a magic every moment
Oh won't you let the music play
Oh won't you let the music play
On a high and windy island I was gazing out to sea
When a long forgotten feeling came and took control of me
It was then the clouds burst open and the sun came pouring
through
When it hit those dancing waters in an instant all eternity
I knew
There's so much we take for granted--there's so much we
never say
We get caught up in the motion of just a living day to day
We are fettered to the future, we are prisoners of the past
And we never seem to notice 'til our lives have finally
Slipped right through our grasp
There's a magic every moment
There's a miracles each day
There's a magic every moment
Oh won't you let the music play
Oh won't you let the music play
You can see forever in a single drop of dew
You can see that same forever if you look down deep inside
of you
There's a spark of the creator in every living thing
He respects me when I work but He so loves me when I sing
There's a magic every moment
There's a miracles each day
There's a magic every moment
Oh won't you let the music play
Oh won't you let the music play
Wishing you joy in the journey,
Aramis Thorn
Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every writer
who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a home
owner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure
store.”
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