“I know I am not living my life exactly the way I REALLY want to live it… But FIRST I need to…“ (you fill in the blank)
How many times have you said something similar to yourself? We WANT — maybe even INTEND to make a change — to start anew — but too often it just doesn’t seem to happen… WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR???
A real truth is: LIFE IS NOT A DRESS REHEARSAL Carl Jung once said “You are what you DO, not what you say you do“ — (or are GOING to do!) Have you sometimes found yourself getting stuck in making lists of what you think you might try/ do/ be “someday” — while the actual days pass by — never to return again?
“Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive and express what we really are…” stated Don Miguel Ruiz.
NOW! TODAY!
ASK yourself... What ONE thing can I actually DO this day to move myself closer to that “expression?”
Composer Don Besig puts it this way on his anthem FLYING FREE…
“ …. life is not a distant sky, without a cloud, without rain —
And I can never hope that I can travel on without pain.
Time goes swiftly on its way, all too soon we’ve lost today…
Life’s a song that I must sing — a gift of love I must share…”
Click here to listen to a lovely rendition of this song and read the full text … and THEN — come to worship August 7 to hear Tom and Eileen sing it for us! Poet Mary Oliver asks the ultimate question: “Tell me — what is it that you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
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