Today’s Thoughts: Our readings today might cause us to close the book and say, “What’s the use!” Both Ecclesiastes and Jesus paint a bleak picture of the reality of the journey of life. Yet, at times we need to hear these bleak words. We need to be reminded of the struggles, the imperfection, and the sinfulness that life can place in our way.
Our journey through life is never “happily ever after.” It is fraught with struggles, challenges, unfairness, sinfulness, and in the end death. The challenge is always what do we do when faced with these realities. Do we give up? Do we run away? Do we say, “Oh what’s the use?” Do we go our own way? Or do we trust in the presence of God? Do we enter into the journey as Jesus did with our eyes focused on the Father? Trusting in God’s presence to bring us through. Perhaps our challenge is to take life as it is and yet always see God’s presence in the journey, in the sunrise, the sunset, in the breath of life. Like Jesus we are called to sense our Father in every breath that we take. In the midst of the struggles and the unfairness of life we are challenged to never forget that we are the work of the Creator’s hands and so we must honor every passing hour, minute and second of our life so that at the end of this life we can move into a gift of eternal life! Have a holy and blessed Saturday everyone!
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