We may all need reminders to be in God’s rhythm for our lives and the season he has us in. When I was at a gathering one day, the talk was about how tired we get of the different seasons for they had been in a store all decorated for Christmas with Christmas music playing and it isn’t even Thanksgiving yet. By the time Christmas actually arrives, it’s like ho-hum when it should be joyful expectation. When I was a child, we had real Christmas trees and we certainly didn’t decorate before Thanksgiving. When Al and I went to Saint Scholastica I was impressed about their way of absorbing more fully the Christmas message. There was a Christmas tree just before the entrance into the chapel and below the tree, there were added gradually one more symbol of the Christmas story. It wasn’t until Christmas eve that they put baby Jesus in the manger and there were days of anticipation beforehand.
Let’s not rush through life for it is too precious. When we die, what do we want people to remember of us by. Certainly not that we kept a perfect house, or we were always on time because we rushed everywhere; or that we were so dedicated to our job that we were rarely home. Jesus didn’t rush and sometimes people were healed as he went to minister to someone else, because he paused on his way. We have time to do all that God calls us to do. As it says in I John 2:17, “And the world passes away and disappears, and with it the forbidden cravings; but he who does the will of God and carries out His purposes in his life abides (remains) forever.”
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