New cars have a built-in system so when someone calls on your phone, you don’t even have to lift a receiver, it’s all built in. It seems everyone has a cell phone, and is (it seems to me) forever using it. One walks along, shopping and checking the list, and hears someone speaking and it’s the person shopping near you talking to a friend.
It brings up a thought. Have you ever been alone? I mean alone on purpose, went somewhere where one could be alone for a length of time?
Took time to day dream? To build plans in the air and perfect them and then just laze away the day? Maybe sitting on the side of a small stream, watching the water, fish dart here and there, a frog catching flies, butterflies flitting here and there, dragonflies coming near, and then perhaps drifting off to sleep a while?
It’s in times like that that we can, as St. Paul wrote to the Romans in chapter l, we can “open our eyes and there it is". By taking a long and thoughtful look at what God has created, people have always been able to see what their eyes as such can’t see: eternal power, for instance, and the mystery of His divine being.” In such quiet times, we can more clearly see God is at work in this world, and feel the deep love God shows the sinful world when He sent His Beloved Son, Jesus Christ, to die to pay the debt of sin we owe. Ephesians 2,8 calls us “Dead in sin, and made alive in Christ, It is a gift of God.”
In the hurry and haste of the life we are living, it is moments in such quiet times that the truths of the Gospel have time to settle and really become part of us. We must take the time to THINK things through, and so find the love of God is strong and enduring, and it is caring and saving in Christ.
May the Lord bless your day, and give you some place for quiet meditation to your blessing.
GPD 1/14/14
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