coffee break

Pause.  Step back.  Turn off the music, the noise in life and listen.  Listen to the world.  Listen to the earth.  Listen to the creation.  Take it all in.  It is all here, all here for enjoyment.  So appreciate it, take it all in.  

God created all of this.  Respect it, care for it, love it.  Love in it.  

^{Genesis 1:29-30} Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.  And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so. 

Legit.  God trust us.  He loves us.  Calls us to rule.  Gives us the power to care for His creation.  For this creation is not ours for the taking, it is all His; it all belongs to Him.  

He lets us rule, falling into sin, destroying His world, His perfection.  Yet, in all the failures He comes down swooping us up into His embrace, into His unending love.  It is in this love that He becomes the Savior, the Sufferer, the Sacrifice.  Through the destruction and breakdown He become the Light, taking with Him every darkness that was, is and will be.  

How inconceivable is it that He (the Most Powerful, the Most High) suffered horribly and was killed just to save me?  Since when have I ever deserved this?  Are my actions and thoughts reflections of this great love I have been shown? 

I think not.  

Let me continually show the blessings and continual love given to me in sacrifice in each and every day.