Good Morning and Happy Last Monday in 2019!
Snow on the Angeles Crest Mountains! What a lovely addition to our festive week! I hope your celebration was as spectacular as the glory of nature and that you created special memories with your loved ones. For those of us who desperately needed rest, I hope you were able to downshift and put on hold the things that could wait until after the first of the year.
Over the weekend, I was contemplating the nature of time in the greater context of an understanding of God. Because He is omniscient (all-knowing), omnipresent (all-pervading), and omnipotent (all-powerful), time has a different meaning than we realize in our limited understanding. As we learn to exist in the presence of God, we acquire a new way to experience life as a continuum of the present moment.
Brother David Steindl-Rast, a 93-year-old Benedictine monk, author, and lecturer, refers to the concept of the Double Realm where we envision various opportunities in our lives as gifts. Whether the immediate perception is positive or negative, we can gain perspective on past, present, and future and acquire an understanding that these gifts of opportunity can become activated through gratitude.
As we enter not only a new year but a new decade, consider how a subtle shift in the perception of all that we encounter as gifts of opportunity can add clarity and dimension to our lives. We may be inspired to leave some situations and experiences in the past in favor of a new and more fulfilling adventure.
I believe T. S. Eliot expressed the idea aptly when he wrote:
“Now, if anyone is enfolded into Christ, he has become an entirely new creation. All that is related to the old order has vanished. Behold, everything is fresh and new.”
2 Corinthians 5:17 (TPT)
Be Well & Be Blessed!
Lucinda
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