“Believe in Your Heart
Believe in your heart that you're meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“Believe in Your Heart
Believe in your heart that you're meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
Believe in your heart that you're meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
1The Lord called to Moses and spoke to him from the tent of meeting. He said, 2“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When anyone among you brings an offering to the Lord, bring as your offering an animal from either the herd or the flock.(1:1-2)LEVITICUS 1-3
MATTHEW 24:23-51
45“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master has put in charge of the servants in his household to give them their food at the proper time? 46It will be good for that servant whose master finds him doing so when he returns. 47Truly I tell you, he will put him in charge of all his possessions. 48But suppose that servant is wicked and says to himself, ‘My master is staying away a long time,’ 49and he then begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards. 50The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of. 51He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
JOURNAL
Recently I have truly been focused on the brevity and uncertainty of life. Part of that is a result of reading a biography on Theodore Roosevelt. Doing so is an exercise in shaming all sense of my own masculinity. To say Teddy was a man is like saying mount Everest is a hill. The man was a relentless, courageous, heroic human dynamo. It boggles my mind to read all that he accomplished, all that he pursued and often his actions were done amidst daunting adversity. One of the many things that impresses me is how his whole life seems to be lived without taking one day or one moment for granted.
One of his struggles, especially in his younger years, was his asthma which at any moment, any day, could render him almost completely incapacitated. I wonder if this adversity is what caused him to relentlessly live life with a sense of urgency. It would make sense that an ever present sickness could prompt someone to make the most of those times when they weren't sick. In his case...his attacks became fewer and fewer as he got older. Yet it probably still motivated him to make the most of life while he had it.
It is an indisputable fact that tomorrow is an unknown, our life is an unknown. No man can truly predict the future. Yet often our actions would suggest otherwise. I don't live as if today might be my last, really I don't know if that is actually possible. But I also don't really consider that it might. When I really look at it...I most often live with an arrogance that I know how tomorrow is going to turn out...or at least how it "should" turn out. I then take that arrogance and live life based on false confidence. Then when things don't turn out like I think they "should" I tend to become bitter, angry and fearful.
I think though what is warranted and commanded here is a healthy appreciation for life with the realization that this may be all we get. God does command that we are to live humbly, grateful for today...knowing that tomorrow is in his hands and we are at his mercy. I think this is the only logical way to live. Anything else is actually foolish...It also I think sets us up with a sense of urgency while balancing that urgency with gratefulness. If I were to really only focus on today with gratitude then my dependence on God is going to truly be optimal. I'm not going to dread or fear tomorrow...but rather am going to make the most of today. Then if I wake up tomorrow...I will awake with a sense of purpose, mission and joy.
Recently I have truly been focused on the brevity and uncertainty of life. Part of that is a result of reading a biography on Theodore Roosevelt. Doing so is an exercise in shaming all sense of my own masculinity. To say Teddy was a man is like saying mount Everest is a hill. The man was a relentless, courageous, heroic human dynamo. It boggles my mind to read all that he accomplished, all that he pursued and often his actions were done amidst daunting adversity. One of the many things that impresses me is how his whole life seems to be lived without taking one day or one moment for granted.
One of his struggles, especially in his younger years, was his asthma which at any moment, any day, could render him almost completely incapacitated. I wonder if this adversity is what caused him to relentlessly live life with a sense of urgency. It would make sense that an ever present sickness could prompt someone to make the most of those times when they weren't sick. In his case...his attacks became fewer and fewer as he got older. Yet it probably still motivated him to make the most of life while he had it.
It is an indisputable fact that tomorrow is an unknown, our life is an unknown. No man can truly predict the future. Yet often our actions would suggest otherwise. I don't live as if today might be my last, really I don't know if that is actually possible. But I also don't really consider that it might. When I really look at it...I most often live with an arrogance that I know how tomorrow is going to turn out...or at least how it "should" turn out. I then take that arrogance and live life based on false confidence. Then when things don't turn out like I think they "should" I tend to become bitter, angry and fearful.
I think though what is warranted and commanded here is a healthy appreciation for life with the realization that this may be all we get. God does command that we are to live humbly, grateful for today...knowing that tomorrow is in his hands and we are at his mercy. I think this is the only logical way to live. Anything else is actually foolish...It also I think sets us up with a sense of urgency while balancing that urgency with gratefulness. If I were to really only focus on today with gratitude then my dependence on God is going to truly be optimal. I'm not going to dread or fear tomorrow...but rather am going to make the most of today. Then if I wake up tomorrow...I will awake with a sense of purpose, mission and joy.
4Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.a 5Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. 7Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
DEUTERONOMY 6:4-7
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