Dear SCC & Friends,
…sustained from my birth… ~Psalm 71:6
Reflection #216
Life truly is a miracle. Scientists can observe what happens at conception and can even describe what is taking place, but they can’t explain how in an exact nano second life begins. For Thou did form my inward parts; Thou did weave me in my mother’s womb. ~Ps. 139:13 We never asked to be created… We didn’t choose our family or ethnicity… Nor did we get to choose our physical or mental aptitudes. We breathe voluntarily by an involuntary heartbeat without being told we need to draw breath… We sleep a third of our lives, and we need rest to be effective in our waking hours.. The Lord defines our purpose throughout Scripture. …You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and foremost commandment. And a second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ ~Matt. 22:37-39 We were born to invest in that which is eternal. Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.~Francis of Assisi~
The Irish have a term called “thin places.” It’s that mysterious and invisible plane between this life and the next. Has the world been so kind to you that you should leave it with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind. ~C.S. Lewis~One day we’re here, tethered to this world, and then the time comes to leave our body to be present with the Lord. How does that work? I don’t know, but it does us good to be reminded from time to time that our mortality has limits. So teach us to number our days, that we may present to You a heart of wisdom.~Ps. 90:12 This is the time to love the Lord using the opportunity to love our neighbor even as ourselves… This is the day which the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. ~Ps. 118:24 God created us, and by His grace has sustained us to this very moment. Our times are forever in His hand… We were made for these days… Keep up the good work!
In His love,
Kevin