Shade Tree Wisdom 5/1/12

           Yes, it does make a difference in the way we live our lives. St. Peter would back up that statement, because He was the one who denied his Lord in that terrible night, for which the Lord forgave him, and then used him mightily as a spokesman for the truth of the Risen Christ.

          So it does make a difference. Peter said for our benefit, “They think it strange that you do not plunge with them into the same flood of dissipation, and they heap abuse on you” 1 peter 4,4.

          In a conversation with a school janitor the teacher heard him say, “Life is just so daily”. He meant sort of humdrum, the daily chores needed doing, and she was reminded of her dad, a farmer. “He did what needed doing without much or any angst. I think his attitude was rooted very much in an agricultural lifestyle. You plant, chop and pick and do all the things that you are supposed to do, but only God controls too much rain or too little rain or freezes.”

          St. Paul said to the Colossians 3,17, “Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the father by Him.”

          Longfellow reminds us in The Song of Life.
               Lives of great men all remind us
               We can make our lives sublime,
               And, departing, leave behind us
               Footprints on the sands of time;
               Footprints, that perhaps another,
               Sailing o'er life's solemn main,
               A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
               Seeing, shall take heart again.
               Let us, then, be up and doing,
               With a heart for any fate;
               Still achieving, still pursuing,     
               Learn to labor and to wait.

          So live “that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders.” And may God bless that walk.

GPD 5/1/12