Author: worrylessjourney

Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

Rabindranath Tagore

Have you ever sat in a forest and listened to the wind through the trees? The sound is like angels whispering. I love this sound. How horrible it would be if there were no longer any trees…no longer any forests. We humans were given dominion over all the earth. What have we done with it? We a are growing close to extinguishing ourselves. How can we be so selfish? The suffering will be in the generations to come. Think about that.

Glorious God, you created the world and chose us to care for it. Help us to see what we are doing before it is too late.

Luke 6:42

 how can you say to your neighbor, ‘Friend, let me take out the speck in your eye,’ when you yourself do not see the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your neighbor’s eye.

“The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.

 Soren Kierkegaard

We spend so much time thinking about the future. We make numerous plans and live in them. If only we could learn to live each day and have an awareness of it. So much slips by us. The joys of each day are not noticed. God gives us each day. If only we could pay attention and be grateful.

Compassionate God, forgive us for our failure to give thanks for what we have and help us to  be more aware each day of the gifts we have. AMEN

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily difference we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
–Marian Wright Edelman, activist

 Too often we want to make the big splash….do something that changes the world. Waiting for that big thing to come along we just sit. The sad thing is that when we just sit nothing is done at all. God calls us to do something. He starts with love God and love our neighbor. Small things do matter. I can’t change the world alone but how can I tell what one small kind action can do. We need to do what we can. Start with love.

Amazing God, you have given us the secret for change. Help us to recognize it. AMEN

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Buddha

 The light of a candle is not the only thing that can be shared. Love is never diminished by being shared. It just keeps getting bigger and bigger. This is what Christ is all about. Love , love , love….if only we could stop all the anger and violence and just concentrate on loving each other. The world would change.

Gracious God, do you despair of us ever getting the message? Please help us to forget all the complex issues and just understand the message. Love is the way. AMEN

Finally breather, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

Philippians 4:8

For some reason this reminds me of the tune “accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative.”  Thinking on negative things makes us negative. It creates a mindset. If we are constantly dwelling on the bad things that can happen or on how everything seems to be going from bad to worse then that is how we feel. God calls us to be joyful in all things. As another song say “put on a happy face” It may not make the bad things go away but it just may make you feel better.

Trustworthy God, we know so little and try to understand way beyond out capabilities. Help us to leave things to you and just say as said by Hildegard of Bingen “all will be well, and all will be well, and all things will be well.”