Pleasant this morning, and a bit warmer, but tending to get cooler toward the weekend. But let’s enjoy the day, for truly “This is the day that the Lord hath made, we will rejoice, and be glad in it”. And the bus is coming, and one of the riders is yelling, ‘Tell her to wait”, as he comes running hard with coat flying, and he does.
But it strikes me that life is sort of messy, isn’t it? And that is the sort of day the Lord tells us to rejoice in. So do, rejoice in it, I mean.
Some get fussy when things aren’t the way they like it. I know the place I work in is like that, here are two books leaning against a chair leg, there are some papers needing to be filed away again, and magazines to be read, or discarded, or put into the recycle bin. It just seems to get awry that way, and I don’t quite know how that happens, except that life is messy. And here’s another batch of mail.
Take a look at nature. Some friends remarked several winters ago driving through Arizona after there had been much rain and seeing wild flowers all over, a thing of beauty they called it. God did it. And few saw it.
Then look at Matthew 13 where Jesus says, “The kingdom of God is like” and tells the story of the seed, some even falling on rocky and shallow soil. Or the weeds sowed by “the enemy”. Jeus said, “Let them both grow until the harvest, then I will separate the good from the bad”. Or the yeast working, or the net catching all kinds of fish. The story is the same, Jesus sends His children out to be witnesses, and the harvest is His. “My Word will not return unto Me void but accomplish that which I please, and prosper in the thing whereto I send it”.
We need to learn to accept that in people too. None are the same, and thank God for that, but accept the differences, and enjoy the day God gave us, in short, live with it. It’s the same in any church. People are different, and yet they are all baptized children of God. But the differences at times provoke unrest, and in the Church people recognize this, they are sinners, and come here for the cure, forgiveness of sins, and so peace with God. So enjoy your day.
GPD 1/28/08
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