…well OK read this first, then stop…
This is it you know.
This is life.
It’s not a rehearsal or a role play.
It’s not a virtual reality training course for the real thing.
This is it. We get each moment once.
Only once!
I often seem to procrastinate life.
I’ll pray tomorrow.
I’ll love later.
I’ll be more generous next year.
I’ll grow up and start my real life one day
God’s listening . Pray now.
Who’s in front of you? Love them.
Be generous till it takes your breath away. You might find you start breathing properly.
Live now.
Really living can be scary, but Easter tells us that following Jesus is all about life that overcomes death. Real life, full life, and this is it.
This was sent to me in an email from Dream and I thought it worth relaying
Thank you, brother, for sharing this thought. It reminds me of all the old statues of Francis, holding a human skull (or standing near one) – the immediacy of our mortality and the fact that “right now is ‘at that time’. I read a story from the Desert Fathers in which two hermit brothers are working in their common garden and one suddenly says to the other ‘What if the Lord came back right now?!’ It says they both burst into tears, dropped their tools and went into their cells to fervently and urgently seek God in prayer. Pray for me brother to truly take what you shared to heart so that ‘forsaking all, I can follow Christ.’ Your brother, always, in Christ. brother Joseph, SFO