The Life who is in you

May grace and peace be ours in abundance. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. (1 Peter1:2-3)

The Life who is in you

Don’t settle for a life less than the one that is yours. It is not enough to endure shut-down and quarantine, waiting for the day we can discard our masks and hug old friends.

Each morning is resurrection, your resurrection. You are born anew. You rise under the gaze of the One who smiles and welcomes you in love to a new day.

Live. Now. Don’t wait for ‘normal times.’

Lift your head and look around with expectation. Look and see. You live in a world where Love lives, having shattered the grave. Cast off the gray shroud that veils your heart that you might see and feel the colors of earth’s wonder.

Look into the eyes of every person you meet and know this one, too, is an incarnation of the One who is Love, sent to you to love that you may be an agent of life.

Laugh at every small pleasure and joy. Release every fear of embarrassing yourself. Share every moment that blesses you. Sharing blessings binds our hearts with others, renewing both them and us.

The life in you is the Life Christ is, stronger than death, alive to every beauty, eager to receive each experience as an opportunity to feel and share the Love who is the blessed Source of each new day.

So don’t settle for merely surviving or enduring these times. Smile and know Life and Love lives at your core.  Feel it there … and live it out. This is your true life. Don’t let the mood of the moment obscure or take it away.

Raised anew each morning by the Love who smiles on your rising, you are more blessed than you know. Live this day with joy and purpose, sharing out the Life who is in you.

Pr. David L. Miller