PHOTO: MARY VAN BALEN- Morning Market
This day the Lord, your god, commands you to observe these statutes and decrees. Be careful, then to observe them with all your heart and with all your soul. Today you are making this agreement with the Lord: he is to be your God and you are to walk in his ways and observe his statutes, commandments and decrees, and to hearken to his voice. And today the Lord is making this agreement with you: you are to be a people peculiarly his own.
Dt 26, 16-18a
This morning, when my feet touched the floor and I took a deep breath, I once again entered my sacred agreement with the Holy One: I say yes to the gift of my life, whatever it brings, yes to God. Today I am making an agreement with God to use my life for good, to follow the example of Jesus, and to avoid actions that allow evil and discord to seep into the world.
The Holy One makes an agreement too: Infinite Love makes me a unique child of God, and we will walk together.
Tonight, when I crawl into bed and burrow under blankets, I know I will have done less good than I might have done and failed more often that I had hoped I would. Yet, I can lay my head on the pillow and rest, assured that God has been faithful to our agreement. I will sleep knowing that despite failure to live up to my end of the bargain, I remain peculiarly Gods own.” When the sun rises I will be offered the agreement once again that day and every day I take a breath.
© 2010 Mary van Balen
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