All You Need Is Love, But A Certain Love

How God’s love is.  We are to live in it, a life filled with gratefulness that this Love is not of ourselves.  We should live by it that His love is what animates our life.  We should offer it, as we live today, to all those that might need it.  We should give it away to all those that unknowingly are rejecting it.  And we should end the day resting in it as that which has brought us through once again. 

Clarity

Only a blue jay, my neighbor’s dog and I are awake.  There are a limited number sunrises in ones life.  Sometimes the only ones that seem to care are animals.

One’s rocking chair should always face the rising sun and then turn during the day to see it set. 

POST SCRIPT: written a few minutes later.  I do not like blue jays.  They can be cruel.  A gang of six or seven that come in early to make their presence known has invaded my woods.  I was complaining to my wife and she said try praising God for them.  I have.  This morning it was one lone jay squawking and screeching.  I wrote the above and then bowed my head to pray.  I was praying in praise for God when a sweet Mocking Birds tune came through the woods followed by all manner of sweet birds.  I smiled in my prayers, shook my head and thought of God mandating a jay as the drill sergeant that throws the trash can down the barracks to awaken everyone to attention to get about their jobs of praising God. 

One Truth Said Two Ways

Old age is easy for me to bear, and is not only not painful, but positively a joy. 

Cicero

Vernal flowers, however beautiful and gay, are only intended by nature as preparatives to autumn fruits.

Dr. Samuel Johnson

Live Like Him

Those who say they live in God should live their lives as Jesus did.

I John 2:6

Most mornings, like this one, the dark is still on and only the faintest night sounds remain, all day creatures still slumber, all night ones have faded too.  In our hearts Christ has again awakened a desire to be more like Him this day, to live and love as He does.  The noise of man-day will quickly overwhelm Christ’s quite voice, “be like Me.”  It is our determination that will allow us to hear that Still Small Voice named Jesus continually urging us to Be Like Me.

Often to be like Jesus is difficult.  Not that I do not desire it but that life happens.  It is like the darkness of the morning, dawn is here but busily writing about the dawn I miss it.  I am so consumed with the pride of being able to write about the sunrise that I fail to live in the light, as I am so inspired with trying to be like Jesus that I fail to live like Him.