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John 14:27
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you, not as the world
gives do I give to you.
Let not your heart be troubled,
neither let it be afraid.
It
was said of John Wesley, founder of the Methodist Church
who arose each morning at four A.M., preached over 40,000 times and traveled
over 250,000 miles on horseback, that he never hurried, he never worried and he
never let foolish anxieties wear him down.
Or, as one of the
field hands in my first rural pastorate often mused, “When I work, I work
hard. When I sit, I sit loose. And when I start to worry, I just go to
sleep.” I know he was quoting Satchel
Paige, but we both got the message.
The world is
full of people who live on a permanent diet of rapid rush and hurry. A quick lunch washed down with a daily cup of
complaint. They are run down, keyed up
and worn out. And having put God on the
back burner, the griddle they are now sitting on seems hotter. How, indeed, can a skinny soul deal with the
big, fat problems of life?
Indeed, if there is an answer on how to handle the art of living, it
would seem to me that we must first and foremost learn how to cooperate with
the inevitable. We make an appointment
and our watch stops. We go fishing and
the only things we catch is a bad cold in a rainstorm. The inevitable is always with us, even though
it is not always kind. It is why I pray
often, “Lord, if I cannot like it, let me learn from it. At least then it will not be a total waste of
time.”
One day I will die, but I am not afraid
because I will but die to live again.
Too often I sin, yet every time God forgives me, and works with me to
help me sin less often. If God be for me, who can be against me. I believe that. Just as I believe that----
Once
there was an oyster
whose
story now I tell,
And
about a grain of sand
that
worked beneath his shell.
Just
one little grain, but oh such pain
For
yes, oysters have feelings,
even
though they’re so plain.
This
oyster, however,
didn’t
curse the heavens
for
such a deplorable state.
Nor
berate the government
Or
call for an election,
Or
demand the sea
give
him immediate protection.
No,
he just lay down on a rocky shelf
And
talked again and again
to
his irritated self.
Saying,
“If I cannot remove it,
I’ll
try to improve it.”
Then
the years rolled by,
as
years always do,
And
he came to his ultimate destiny,
in a
restaurant stew;
And
in place of the sand
That
had bothered him so
Was a
beautiful pearl all richly aglow.
The
tale you have heard has a moral.
Now
isn’t that grand what
wonderful
things oysters can do
with
only a morsel of sand.
What
couldn’t we do to make life better,
If
we’d only begin with all the things
that
get under our skin.
I have a test for
you to take to check the height of your anxiety level. At one end of life’s creative process we can
make pearls. At the other end we can
cause infection to ourselves and others.
Most of the time we are somewhere in between.
1. Are you
always judging people, or praying for them?
2. Do you allow
yourself to be over-
whelmed by gratitude, or are you a curmudgeon of the 1st
degree, seldom even uttering a thank you?
3. Do you seek
conflict, or ways to
avoid it?
4. Have you found recently that
people are loving you more because you have become more
loveable, or loving you less because you have truly become a pain to put up
with?
5. Is peace the presence of something or the absence of something?
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