It’s not always easy to take time for this whole ritual of daily Advent Readings and Prayer, is it?
We want to save time…we want to use time wisely…and, quite frankly, especially when we are maintaining the routine of every day life as well as practicing Advent, there seems to be a genuine lack of enough time to get it all done.
Today I find myself wondering about the "it" that we think we need to get done....
So much of what I consider essential in my list of to do's dissolves if I hold it up to what scripture teaches about life. I can't begin to envision the vast range of possibilities that God holds in God's Wisdom. There is an immensity...a totality about God's love that puts my ideas about what is "essential" into perspective. And when I surrender my own ideas about how to use my time today I have entered the realm of possibility that maybe, just maybe, one or two of my moments today will be in alignment with God's Wisdom for this day.
So many of my plans are connected to my limited knowledge of all that could be done today to glorify God and serve others. My own plans may even be quite separate from God (forgive me, Lord).
Today's reading is Psalm 90.
When I follow "my way" in setting the course for today, I dwell in the life that is impermanent...that will dissolve and fade like dust in the wind.
God gives us the gift and the privilege of participating in eternity… I pray that I won't squander that gift. That by laying this day and all my deeds before God for God to use, I may participate in the flow of the time that has no ending.
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