Check out my new 'World Reflections" Section
Interesting stories and anecdotes that reach into insights I have gained abroad.
Healing Grief, On-line Course, by Terry Douglas.
You are invited to participate in an 8-
week, on-line course, entitled
Healing Grief Page that captures a journey of healing following deep loss.
Meditation – March 27, 2009
Posted on Friday, March 27th, 2009
Scripture: Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. James 1:4
Prayer: There are times – perhaps most times – that I become impatient for perseverance to finish its work. Guide me this morning.
Response: Maybe it’s not perseverance that is your challenge but the patience to await the results. Isn’t the experience of life like a race on a river that you have never raced on previously? Once you settle down, because you don’t know how long the race is, as there are no familiar markers to gauge your progress, you lengthen your strokes and concentrate on each single stroke — the single act of rowing. You are focused in the present and, if I might say, you are relaxed. That is perseverance.
So your life, simply stated, is the opportunity to take one stroke, one step, one smile, one embrace, one pause, one prayer, one service, one gesture — and on and on endlessly in the rhythm of this gracious experience of life where you discover almost unwillingly that your journey takes you through endless streams flowing left, then right, always forward. And almost contrary to your expectations you begin to exhibit that patience for which you once were most critical of yourself and others. In that moment of consciousness, enlightenment, you realize that you could continue endlessly – and will.
For today think about how perseverance calls you today.
All for this morning
Share on FacebookLeave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.
