The characteristics of living things.
Today, we live.
What does that mean to you? To live? To really live? Live fully; live well; live abundantly; live free.
Deep thoughts?
Deep words?
Life has certain characteristics that define it, drive it, and develop it, but raw, biological life does not consider and contemplate itself. It just lives.
Contemplation is good. Self-awareness is good. Introspection is good. It is happening here.
But it can be overdone at the expense of living and communing with God in the quietness of disorganized thought.
How much time have I wasted looking and waiting for something deep to say or think when the deep waters are everywhere and everything that exists has unfathomed depths beyond the imagination to be explored?
And how much has been expended in judging the quality of one's prayers and contemplation as if there were a scale by which to evaluate them?
Today, we live.
Today, we think.
Today, we pray.
Today, we are.
"A prayer life doesn’t have to be mystical, beautiful, or inspirational. Even to seasoned pray‑ers this spiritual habit often seems quite ordinary and uneventful. What is crucial is the prayer’s importance to the one doing the praying. All that matters is that a person pray a little every day in order to grow closer to God, who very dearly desires to grow closer to that person."
"In the end, what I say or what I think God says, what Scripture passages I use, or what positions I sit in don’t matter very much. What matters is that I am reaching out to God. I can trust that God will take care of the rest."
--Excerpted from God’s Voice Within by Mark E. Thibodeaux, SJ
So, don't worry about making it happen. Live. Think. Pray. Live fully; live well; live abundantly; live free.
