Quality. It's what we notice first about our experience at a restaurant, an airport, a school, a sports arena or shopping mall, and even a church. It's the feeling that they care, they know what's important, they're connected to the culture. To cut to the chase...lately, I've been thinking about me.
What does my life represent? I need to think about me, because though I'm the only one that can answer such a question and the only one that can decide to do something about it, how I answer and what I do will affect far more than the one involved. The Bible records in the book of Ecclesiastes 9:10, "Whatever you do, do well. For when you go to the grave, there will be no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom." Here we find one of the most sobering challenges. I must question the quality of my own life for the very purpose of my limited existence on this earth. And, I must be challenged to do better!
I want to pass along a stirring prayer that I came across recently...a prayer that I have begun to pray. I will write more on this subject later. Now for the prayer...
Disturb us, O Lord disturb us,
O Lord, when we are too well pleased with ourselves;
When our dreams come true only because
we have dreamed too little.
When we arrive safely only because
we sailed too close to the shore,
When with the abundance of things
we are losing our thirst for more of God;
When in loving time, we have ceased to dream of eternity,
When in our desire to build on this earth
we have lost our vision of a new heaven.
- Anonymous
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