WHAT WILL TODAY BRING?

 

Saturday, March 13, 2021

 

WHAT WILL TODAY BRING?

 

Prov 27:1

27 Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

 

           With questionable wisdom, the powers that be have decided that we should arbitrarily change our time by setting our clocks one hour ahead in order to take advantage of more daylight. The sun looks on bemused!

 

           That being said, I look forward to longer and brighter days. I am an early riser and am accustomed to dark mornings with strong coffee and silence, but the evenings will shine brighter until almost bedtime. For those who love the outdoors it is a great time of year.

 

           I struggle a bit with being recently retired. While I retired because I was tired, I am somewhat uneasy being at ease. I need to understand the words of Eckhart Tolle who said: “Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry—all forms of fear—are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of non-forgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.” 

 

           I have never outgrown impatience, but Dietrich Bonhoeffer says that I should develop the ability to patiently wait. He said: “The blessedness of waiting is lost on those who cannot wait, and the fulfillment of promise is never theirs. They want quick answers to the deepest questions of life and miss the value of those times of anxious waiting, seeking with patient uncertainties until the answers come. They lose the moment when the answers are revealed in dazzling clarity.”

 

Matt 6:34

34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

 

Dear Lord, let me not set my emotional clock ahead and miss an important hour. AMEN