God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.
Arthur Young
God created all things. The Bible gave us the most wonderful picture of how that happened. He then turned the responsibility over to us to care for it. What have we done? We have raped the earth. We have thought only of ourselves and our wants. I hope it is not too late to reverse the damage but it will take every one of us. Do anything you can to halt the damage.
Forgiving Lord, we have sinned against your creation. Help us to move swiftly to make up for our abuse. AMEN
Our actions can make a difference. I met someone I hadn’t seen in years and hardly remembered. The person greeted me with great warmth and told me that I changed her life! I didn’t remember anything about this. I had no idea what I had done but she did. We can make the difference in someone’s life…..mostly by love. God has called us to love one another. We may never know the result of our interaction….but God does. And we might know someday… but we may not. Be aware every day that you may be the difference!
Each day we meet people whether at our job, walking on the street or maybe even on the phone. We never know what is going on in the lives of the people we meet. Even when talking to someone on the phone we can smile. You can hear it in a voice. Smile as you pass people on the street. You may be the only person who acknowledged their existence today. You have no idea what that simple gesture can mean.
I hope that everyone was able read this poem. It illustrates a problem that most of us have. We can’t see the forest for the trees..We spend time trying to find God. We search everywhere. We want to be able to prove that God is. The thing is we can’t. There is no way to prove God. We just need to choose Him. Choose every single day to accept and believe that God is with us because that is exactly where he is!
God did not choose for us to be unhappy. It is not a good advertisement for life lived as a Christian. Who want to join with people who go around with grump or gloomy faces. God wants us to be joyful Christians. People will want to be with you and find out what makes you able to live in this way. Be a happy Christian.
It is so easy to judge others. We do it every day. I may be a simple thing such as making a comment about someone’s hair. We may also judge about more serious things forgetting the sins in our own lives. God has said that he is the only judge. Take his word for it and try to curb your judgement of others.
It seems to me that the striving for power in this world is one of the greatest evils. The need to feel yourself more powerful than someone else is addicting. The thing is God calls us to be servants. Servants are not the people in charge. If we love others we do not wish to feel more important than them. We want to uphold them and help them to be the best they can be. Remember that we are called to love.
It is so easy to be compassionate to those people that we like. But what about the people who have hurt us in some way? That is not so easy. Too often we hold a grudge and always look at that person differently. Recently someone who is not my favorite person came down with cancer. The diagnosis made me think about my own feelings and that my petty complaints were of no consequence. I have been moved to compassion but I should have been there from the beginning. We never know what is going on is someone else’s life. We must learn compassion for all mankind.
Hear God in Other Voices 