Just me trying to be honest with God.

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow.” Lao-Tzu

Does he who plows for sowing plow continually? Is.28.24 ESV

Progression is built into the framework of creation. Plowing gives way to planting and planting to pruning and pruning to harvest. One does not keep on plowing and plowing and plowing. There is a time to plow, indeed there is a time for everything under the sun, but one season passes naturally into another and we are wise to give ourselves to these ordered rhythms. The Spirit teaches us when to plow, when to plant, when to work, and when to play. We should learn to read the seasons of life, content our hearts with the change that necessarily comes as one passes into another and train ourselves “to go with the flow.” “For he is rightly instructed; his God teaches him.” Youth passes into age and we should all age with grace. Indeed, we should learn to make our peace with each passing season if we are to know the joy of God’s presence in them. Heraclitus observed that, “everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.” There is one constant as we pass through this passing age, though it is manifest in many ways, even unknown by many, and that is the love of God in Christ. 12/29/2008 ts