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FRIDAY, September 2
James 4:13—5:6. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
Time is a precious gift that is easily and often wasted. Have you ever been surprised to read a beloved name on the obituary page and realize, with great regret, that you put off for too long a call or visit to stay in touch and say, “I care?”
How often do you notice a drooping potted plant that has wilted from lack of water, because you have been too busy?
Do you know the feeling of hearing your doctor say you are diabetic or that you need stronger blood pressure medicine mainly because you’ve let your bathroom scale creep steadily upward? We all pretend that tomorrow is the best day for a new diet.
Time is a precious gift. Even though God promises us eternal life through the love of Christ, our time here and now is fragile and measured. Our yesterdays are memories. Today is our reality. Now is the moment that we have.
Each one of us has an important way to use today, while we can. Let’s do.
God, the master of time, never gives the future. He gives only the present, moment by moment.
--The Cloud of Unknowing
PRAY for the Diocese of Sebei (Uganda)
Ps 31 * 35; 1 Kings 11:26-43; Mark 15:22-32
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