October 13, 2022
Thought to Ponder
"He that knows little often repeats it."
Thursday, October 13, 2022
Wednesday, October 12, 2022
October 12, 2022
Reflection
IS IT WORTH IT?
I was wondering if the question, "Is it worth it?" - is a good question to ask?
Is it the bottom line question in much of our decision making?
I don't remember ever asking that question specifically - in any of my decisions.
Yet, come to think about it, it's a good question. It's worth thinking about whether something is worth doing.
It's a value question.
It's an energy question.
It's a use of one's time question.
Is it worth getting out of bed this morning.
Is it worth marrying this person?
Is it worth it to become and then stay a priest.
Is it worth it?
The words "cost" and "time" and "life" appear in the background of this background question.
I'll have to re-read Dietrich Bonhoeffer's book, The Cost of Discipleship once again.
Dietrich could have stayed in England a returned to Germany - but he must have decided it was worth it.
Jesus made promises or reward to those who would leave all to follow him. He must have been aware of the question, "Is it worth it?"
Did Jesus have to make the decision in the first place - whether to become human and whether to follow the way to Jerusalem?
In the garden, was he asking the question, "Is is worth it?"
At the end of our life, seeing everything, hopefully we'll say, "It was worth it."
Isn't that "Yes" the secret of happiness?"
Tuesday, October 11, 2022
October 11, 2022
Reflections
HEART BEATS
How many heart beats will I have?
Who's counting?
It's an amazing organ - this gift in the chest - in the center of the human body,
Thank You, God! Thank You.
Thank you, mom and dad. Thank you.
Thank you car drivers, who didn't cause and accident, that could have killed me - by stopping this heart of mine.
I'm 67. I guess I could add up the number of heart beats a person has on an average day and then multiply that number by 67 and then by 365 and come up with a good number.
Wow!
Life!
That's my beating heart.
What about the blinks of a lifetime? What about the words I've spoken, the steps I've taken, the meals I've eaten, the times I've fallen asleep?
A lifetime.
Heart beats seem to be the most central.
Yet the brain can fail - my eyes could go - so too my hearing.
Yet the heart beating still seems the most central activity.
But what about breath?
I guess I can't forget interconnections.
For starters I still want more heart beats.
Monday, October 10, 2022
October 10, 2022
Reflections
TRANSFIGURATION
To see God - another - gold - glass - time - life - a meal - in a new way - a new vision - a new view - wow - amazing - making tomorrow - different from today.
Transfiguration - I never thought of that before.
I never heard you speak or see or hear or sing - like this before.
Wow.
I never knew this mountain was here.
I never knew I could climb into this new view - but Christ you took me into this new view - a new scene - a new plateau.
Would I've able to understand the metaphor if I hadn't climbed the reality - having climbed a real mountain.
So thank you God for my younger days - days I climbed mountains in New Hampshire and Colorado with friends.
Jesus must have done what I have done - getting away - escaping - with friends - getting away from it all.
Go figure.
Do we have to go somewhere else - before we can figure out the right here - right now?
Transfiguration.
I like both parts of that word - the "trans" and the "figuring".
When was the last time I saw Jesus in a new light?
Go figure.
When was my last transfiguration moment?
Go figure
When was the last time I saw myself - and my life - and all life - in a new light?
Go figure.
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