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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
