Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Life worth living

How does God feel about how we live our lives? Is it just about avoiding sin, private religion and personal spitiruality? If not, where is the starting point for living the abundant life that Christ promised in His time with us?

I was reading this book "Choice, Desire and the Will of God" by David Runcorn and a few pages grabbed me, which I wanted to share.

    Our vocation is to imagine the world as God does. It is a world of endless choice and possibility. To be made alive in Christ is to be called into the same adventurous spirit of life which brought this world to birth. Such vocation involves the whole of our humanity. We must learn to listen to our own depths. The problem with our age is not that we pay too much attention to our wants and passions. We do not take our longings seriously enough. We must befriend our desires. We must learn to live in our choices. If this calls us to a life of responsibility it is also an invitation to extraordinary freedom. But above all else this path will call us to a constant renewing of our vision of God. This is a vocation of contemplation, wonder and mystery. Nothing could be more glorious or more demanding.

It is a reminder to me: Even though we are often caught in this life between the height of pressures and the troughs of mundaneness, we must not for a moment stop asking what our longings are. We must never lose sight of what it means to catch hold of what we have been put on this earth for -- to constantly renew of our vision of God and imagine the world as God does. I must admit that I have not fully grasp what the author is trying to convey, but for now, I guess that is another way of saying "Father, let Your Will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven" .

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