Ready for what you ask? Or maybe you don’t ask, but I’ll tell you anyway. I’m ready to start celebrating Thanksgiving. Of course I do this on a regular basis. You might want to try it. Get up a little early, find a place where the presence of God is easy to sense or comprehend, and spend a little time concentrating on the blessings in your life.
This morning, as I was just starting off and thinking about how focusing on God could bring everything into perspective, a chorus came to mind. I’m going to try and get the words right, if I don’t, deal with it.
Turn your eyes upon Jesus.I could choose to focus on my thorn in the flesh. I could choose to focus on my failures. I could choose to focus on my creaky joints and my stiff muscles. I could get upset that my coffee is getting cold. There are many things to focus on if I’m ready for a pity party. I don’t know about you, but I am always too willing to have a pity party.
Look full in His wonderful face,
And the things of earth will grow strangely dim,
In the light of His glory and grace.
I find, though that if I listen to what God is saying to me, focus on Him, and start thinking about who He is, and how He blesses me then, the things of earth grow strangely dim.
Try it, you might like it. There is no reason to wait until the end of November.
homo unius libri
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