i want to do life
and if that's so
i need to do it now
before it's too late
to do
i'm later on in life ...
it's now or never
i
vote
now
i have choices
of my own
i can continue down the fail-path
chasing money
and career
and retirement
and comfortability
which is actually death
not life
or
i can
repent
i can change my heart
my mind
my motivations
my intentions
my attitudes
my spending
my efforts
..... ...
my life
into life
real life
life in the Son
i choose life
over death
it may result in death
but that death is
release from the flesh
new-newlife
in its fullest
= shalom
selah ~~.~.~..
which translates into
clarify
simplify
balance
which translates into
trust in the lord with all your heart
and don't rely on your own understanding of things ...
submit everything to his authority
and he will guide you on the right paths.
which translates into
'you want to be my disciple
leave your life
pick up your cross
follow me'
i really can't think of anyone better to be a follower of
i see us esteeming this person and that
this movement
this church
that doctrine
that whatever
and i think of jesus saying
that we shouldn't be looking to esteem
even him
“why do you call me good?"
jesus asked him.
no one is good but one - God.
what we are to be about
is fulfilling our call
to love God with everything we are
and to love our neighbours as our selves
...
that's it
in a nutshell
so
i'll
be
a
nut
shalom
Strange how you call retirement a "death". For many, many years, I have never felt I would see retirement (24 years teaching done), yet, I did not know what that meant. Would I die? At times I hoped so! That would be a rescue. Other times I begged God to give me something else to do....so I wait and see, but I don't believe I will "see" retirement. As a friend says, we are the rats on the proverbial wheel...going no place. She gets to retire next summer, and that is all she can talk about. We are constantly told we are not good enough; we must strive to do better, we can always do better..... I keep saying to that friend, "But, we are not teaching techniques to brain surgeons! It is only middle school!." To think of the number, vast number, of people who lead lives of mediocrity and oppression just to get by....the wasted lives...waiting for retirement, a retirement that may not even come. How sad...I know.
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