Often we want to be able to see into the future. We say, "How will next year be for me? Where will I be five or ten years from now?" There are no answers to these questions. Mostly we have just enough light to see the next step: what we have to do in the coming hour or the following day. The art of living is to enjoy what we can see and not complain about what remains in the dark. When we are able to take the next step with the trust that we will have enough light for the step that follows, we can walk through life with joy and be surprised at how far we go. Let's rejoice in the little light we carry and not ask for the great beam that would take all shadows away.
(Henri Nouwen, from Bread for the Journey)
Your word is a lamp to my feet
and a light for my path.(Psalm 119.105)
I need to read things like this. I always want to know exactly where things are going, precisely what God has planned for me after I do this next thing, and he always says, "Just do the next thing. Leave the consequences, and their consequences, to me." I never listen… the next time I'm just as bad.
Ruby is doing well – she has been playing with her sister all day, as best she can with her silly collar. She refuses to go back in her cage at any price. I have to say she seems just fine not in it!
3 comments:
Yes, I agree. I need to tie these like phylacteries around my forehead :)
I'm glad Ruby is doing well. Yay, puss :)
So glad Ruby is doing well.
I cannot tell you how many jobs I lost along the way, because I sat speechless when they asked, "Where do you see yourself five years from now?" If only I had known enough to say, "There are no answers to these questions."!!!
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