A sunny day, shared with people you love. It doesn't get any better than that, or so it seems as I lay on my bed and reflect on a superb week away.
Whist half the group tamed Snowdon (up the Pyg - down the Miner's) I took the option of slate museum and skimming slate on a shady pool. Watching our children play, the dogs swim and a friend clicking away with their camera I reflected on how lucky I was that the memories we live were so good.
It seems so sad that so many people I meet live in the 'then' rather than the 'now' and yet don't take advantage of the 'then' when it was then! We are so poor at seizing the day, rushing towards planned days in the distance, setting up retirements and things in the future and missing the sights and scenes before us now (and sometimes dying before the 'then' is ever reached!). We live for the promise of the future and fail to live in the splendour of god's provision for us today.
We (I) need to put the work, the things that distract us from celebrating the 'now' aside and grasp what we have, for soon the children will be grandchildren, the packing will be easier and less (just the two of us) and the regrets many.
Seize the day - live in the things before us rather than in the plans of thing that might be (or might not). Live each day as if it is your last and it will not matter if it is, you will have lived it well before God and man (wise words from a wise man who did just that).
Carpe Diem
Pax
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It struck me on Ascension Day how Jesus talked about repentance and forgiveness being proclaimed in his name to all the nations. Forgiveness is about freeing us from the past; repentance is about how we live now in the light of that freedom. And after Jesus was taken from them, the disciples were told not to just stand there waiting for some future to come along and happen to them, but to get back to Jerusalem and then, when the Holy Spirit comes to go out and get stuck into their work in the present moment.
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