11/09/19 20:24
The Chicago Marathon i coming up in a few weeks and I took notice of the many thousands of runners who take part. Everyone who finished will have their times posted somewhere. Years ago it was in a newspaper, but more than likely in this day and age will be somewhere online. Why don’t we treat our lives like a marathon. We live in a society that sprints- in other words wants to get to the next appointment, the next phase of our life, the next, next, next as fast as possible. We rarely, stop to smell the roses so to speak.
Perhaps that is why many people today have superficial relationships with God. He wants someone in it for the marathon not the sprint. He wants us to spend time with him, savoring him and what he has done for us. I am guilty of it just as much as anyone else. My prayer today is to stop and smell the roses and make my life a marathon!
18/08/19 17:23
Spiritual Emptiness
Many times, in the spiritual life, we go through periods of emptiness. This morning I actually woke up feeling spiritually empty. Summer seems to be winding down as the students return to school. Even the days are not as long. I checked out the sunset time the other day and it was a full fifteen minutes earlier than the last time I checked. That’s not to say that I don’t love the seasons and even the coming of the change of season. Perhaps I am feeling empty because I feel the summer went by too quickly. Or maybe I didn’t get to do all I wanted this summer.
In examining and mediating on these feelings during prayer this morning, it seems that maybe the reason I am feeling spiritually empty is because I am making them all about me. I am lamenting the change of season, I am mourning the lost daylight, I feel the summer went by too quickly… I, I, I.
So maybe this spiritual emptiness needs a reorientation- a reboot so to speak, where the focus of my life becomes God. That will certainly be my prayer for myself in the coming days- taking the focus off of me and my wants and placing it more on God and what His will for me truly is.