Originally typed: November 3, 2010
It's not how we start, but how we finish, but we can never finish well unless at some point you start well. How do we start well? Start today. What do we start?... Start to love others today, because we have been, and are loved, in spite of our yesterdays, and as for our tomorrow(s)... we can just try to love more if we get there.
How do we know how to love? Look at how we've been loved. Pray that through the Holy Spirit we would be shown our "unlovable" nature, and enamored with the grace and mercy we've received to have the breath to even begin to pray this prayer. Read and study and meditate through the Bible on how we've been, are, and will be loved by our Father, through the death and resurrection of Jesus, and through His ascension and sending of the Holy Spirit. And look for ways to reflect that love starting today. We must be attentive to the Spirit. Be attentive to our surroundings. We must be self aware to how we treat people, and to how we're "not all that great." When we do this we can love others more freely, because we see how freely we've been loved in spite of our yesterdays, today, and tomorrows.
There's no better way to build a future that may or may not happen, than to do it in light of a future that will be, and a past that was, and a present that is. Love and do things today to the "likable" and "unlikable" that will leave us justly and rightly happy tomorrow for what we have done with our yesterday, and if tomorrow never comes for us individually or collectively, we've finished well.
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