As we start a new year, I ask myself what will I spend my time focused on in the days ahead? Will it be something important or a total time drain? Will I expend my energy doing something meaningful and worthwhile? Will it bring the Kingdom into someone's life.
Time and energy are very much in short supply these days and with so many distractions pulling in so many different directions, the day-to-day demands of life and the multiple streams of media promoting the latest cause célèbre it becomes almost impossible to stay focused and on task.
The Sermon on the Mount gives us the framework for Kingdom Life and what is important to focus our time, energy, and resources on.
I think that The Clergy Coaching Network said it quite succinctly:
"The work will remain the work.
To love your neighbor.
To be generous with a stranger.
To protect the water, the air, the soil.
To heal old wounds.
To not make new ones.
The work remains the work.
In fact it has all become,
suddenly, even more important."
So, the work will remain the work! It's not so much a New Year's resolution, I'm not one to make or for that matter keep New Year's resolutions. It comes as more of a resolve to stay on track, to keep on keeping on as we used to say.
Keep the faith and keep on truck'n
Peace, Love and Light!
Kevin (Cloud)
